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Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition by Kathleen Barker
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- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9780801484056
- Type
- NA
- Publication Name
- NA
- ISBN
- 9780801484056
- Book Title
- Contingent Work : American Employment Relations in Transition
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Law, Political Science, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Human Resources & Personnel Management, Labor & Industrial Relations, General, Labor, Labor & Employment
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801484057
ISBN-13
9780801484056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
867668
Product Key Features
Book Title
Contingent Work : American Employment Relations in Transition
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Resources & Personnel Management, Labor & Industrial Relations, General, Labor, Labor & Employment
Publication Year
1998
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-011445
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"This volume . . . offers a many-faceted look at the work and the workers at the lower end of the contingent work continuum. . . . Readers of this volume will gain increased appreciation for how most contingent employment arrangements benefit the firms much more than the contingent workers they employ in usually undesirable jobs. This informative book examines an important labor market phenomenon and will appeal to all students of the labor market regardless of discipline."--Choice, The authors argue that growing numbers of contingent workers have permanently altered labor relations and the so-called employment contract, with employers coming to regard workers as 'disposable' and employees abandoning notions of organizational loyalty., "Barker and Christensen bring together an outstanding collection of essays on the transformation of American employment. This interdisciplinary volume provides the theoretical, historical, and legal contexts for understanding the reemergence of contingent work, and offers empirical research on its extent and its consequences for workers and their families. This volume will be useful for scholars and students interested in work in America; it is a must for policymakers, unions, and personnel specialists."--Barbara Reskin, Harvard University, "This multidisciplinary collection of first-rate papers-dealing with contingent workers, flexible workplaces, and their institutional contexts-will be an indispensable resource for anyone concerned with the changing nature of employment relations as we begin the twenty-first century."-Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "This book does a simply masterful job of helping us understand contingent work arrangements-numbers, consequences, and public policy concerns. In an area plagued by rhetoric and ideology, it offers facts and analysis, a dose of reality that grounds this important issue."-Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University, "Temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, part-time jobs without job security or medical benefits-is this the new American workplace? If so, what does that mean about the social worlds we build at home and at work? This volume gathers some of the best and latest thinking on an issue critical to us all."-Arlie Hochschild, University of California, Berkeley, "Barker and Christensen bring together an outstanding collection of essays on the transformation of American employment. This interdisciplinary volume provides the theoretical, historical, and legal contexts for understanding the reemergence of contingent work, and offers empirical research on its extent and its consequences for workers and their families. This volume will be useful for scholars and students interested in work in America; it is a must for policymakers, unions, and personnel specialists."-Barbara Reskin, Harvard University, "A quick and accessible read for policymakers and students alike. Its challenge to contemporary liberal thinking about poor women's work makes it a provokative text for courses in public welfare policy, women's labor history, and recent feminism, as well as a needed reminder to activists for social justice."--Anne Brophy, Georgia State University, Labor History. November, 1999., Barker and Christensen's well-organized, interesting and useful book takes us on a tour of the downside of changing employment relations. This book is a compelling introduction to the human issues of the downside of contingent employment. It is written at a level that should be accessible and interesting to most undergraduate students., "Temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, part-time jobs without job security or medical benefits--is this the new American workplace? If so, what does that mean about the social worlds we build at home and at work? This volume gathers some of the best and latest thinking on an issue critical to us all."--Arlie Hochschild, University of California, Berkeley, "Barker and Christensen's well-organized, interesting and useful book takes us on a tour of the downside of changing employment relations. This book is a compelling introduction to the human issues of the downside of contingent employment. It is written at a level that should be accessible and interesting to most undergraduate students."--Ted Baker, American Sociological Review, "A quick and accessible read for policymakers and students alike. Its challenge to contemporary liberal thinking about poor women's work makes it a provokative text for courses in public welfare policy, women's labor history, and recent feminism, as well as a needed reminder to activists for social justice."-Anne Brophy, Georgia State University, Labor History. November, 1999., A quick and accessible read for policymakers and students alike. Its challenge to contemporary liberal thinking about poor women's work makes it a provokative text for courses in public welfare policy, women's labor history, and recent feminism, as well as a needed reminder to activists for social justice., This volume... offers a many-faceted look at the work and the workers at the lower end of the contingent work continuum.... Readers of this volume will gain increased appreciation for how most contingent employment arrangements benefit the firms much more than the contingent workers they employ in usually undesirable jobs. This informative book examines an important labor market phenomenon and will appeal to all students of the labor market regardless of discipline., "The authors argue that growing numbers of contingent workers have permanently altered labor relations and the so-called employment contract, with employers coming to regard workers as 'disposable' and employees abandoning notions of organizational loyalty."--Booklist, "This book does a simply masterful job of helping us understand contingent work arrangements--numbers, consequences, and public policy concerns. In an area plagued by rhetoric and ideology, it offers facts and analysis, a dose of reality that grounds this important issue."--Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University, "This multidisciplinary collection of first-rate papers--dealing with contingent workers, flexible workplaces, and their institutional contexts--will be an indispensable resource for anyone concerned with the changing nature of employment relations as we begin the twenty-first century."--Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The authors argue that growing numbers of contingent workers have permanently altered labor relations and the so-called employment contract, with employers coming to regard workers as 'disposable' and employees abandoning notions of organizational loyalty."-Booklist
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
331.25/72
Synopsis
The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work--an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations. It delineates essential features of contingent work from both the worker's and the organization's point of view. Articulating a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, the contributors examine the business forces driving contingent work and assess the consequences of working contingently for the individual, family, and community, taking into account issues of race, class, and gender. They ask how current labor and employment laws need to be rewritten to provide contingent workers with the same comprehensive protections offered to permanent employees. In the final chapter, the editors comment on the status of research on contingent work and chart future research directions., The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work--an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such...
LC Classification Number
HD5854.2.U6C66 1998
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