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Tables of Contents for Contingent Work
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
Controversy and Challenges Raised by Contingent Work Arrangements
1
20
Kathleen Barker
Kathleen Christensen
Part I The Workers: Numbers and Patterns
Historical Perspective: The Peripheral Worker (1969)
21
20
Dean Morse
Counting the Workers: Results of a First Survey
41
28
Sharon R. Cohany
Steven F. Hipple
Thomas J. Nardone
Anne E. Polivka
Jay C. Stewart
Gauging the Consequences for Gender Relations, Pay Equity, and the Public Purse
69
34
Roberta Spalter-Roth
Heidi Hartmann
Part II The Workplace: Tension and Trends
Countervailing Human Resource Trends in Family-Sensitive Firms
103
23
Kathleen Christensen
Benefits and Costs to Employers
126
18
Stanley D. Nollen
Helen Axel
New Systems of Work and New Workers
144
26
Robert Drago
The Interaction between Market Incentives and Government Actions
170
25
George Gonos
Part III The Human Face of Contingent Workers
Toiling for Piece-Rates and Accumulating Deficits: Contingent Work in Higher Education
195
26
Kathleen Barker
Sisyphus at Work in the Warehouse: Temporary Employment in Greenville, South Carolina
221
22
Jean McAllister
Job Safey and Contract Workers in the Petrochemical Industry
243
20
James B. Rebitzer
Part IV Policy and Research: Future Directions
Making Labor Law Work for Part-Time and Contingent Workers
263
18
Virginia L. duRivage
Francoise J. Carre
Chris Tilly
Contingent Workers and Employment Law
281
25
Anthony P. Carnevale
Lynn A. Jennings
James M. Eisenmann
Charting Future Research
306
15
Kathleen Barker
Kathleen Christensen
References
321
16
Contributors
337
6
Index
343