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Title: Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition by Kathleen Barker, Kathleen Christensen ISBN: 0801484057 Publisher: Ilr Pr Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4

Rating: 5
Summary: Kathleen Barker, Editor, comments...
Comment: This volume culminates a five year project working with the top scholars on contingent work in the United States. Every form of contingent work is considered in depth by knowledgeable experts, from independent contracting to temporary arrangements, from service industries to higher education. The result, in our estimation, is a thought-provoking and timely review of how particular American workers are faring.

Reviewers have commented:

"Barker and Christensen bring together an outstanding collection on the transformation of American employment. This iterdisciplinary volume provides the theoretical, historical, and legal contexts for understanding the eremergence of contingent work, and offers empirical research on its extent and its consequences for workes and their families. This volume will be useful for scholars and students interested in work in America; it is a must for policy-makers, unions, and personnel specialists." (Barbara Reskin, Harvard University)

and "This book does a simply masterful job of helping us understand contingent work arrangements..." (Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University

Rating: 3
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Comment: Extenisve research, could have been more inclusive with contingent work section. If you want to read about a temp turned activist (she testified in the U.S.Senate Labor Committee June 1993) read Temporarily Yours by Wendy Perkins, a revealing expose of the temp industry as portrayed by this Beverly Hills temp worker.

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