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Book SynopsisIn recent years, much attention has focused on the growth of nonstandard and contingent employment (including part-time work) which involves up to 30 percent of the total U.S. labor force. There is little agreement on either the causes or the effects...
Trade Review"Sixteen papers examine the observed decline of the standard employment relationship and the emerging new employment arrangements."
* Journal of Economic Literature *
"The volume is characteristic of prior annual research volumes of the IRRA in that it contains a summary introduction by the editors and a mixture of empirical and theoretical pieces... This scholarly volume is recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers."
-- Choice, June 2001, Vol. 38, No. 10
"This volume is about the decline of the standard employment relationship and the emerging new employment arrangements."
-- Future Survey, 23:4, April 2001
