During the past few decades there has been a gradual international trend toward a
fundamental restructuring of the employment contracts between organizations and workers …

Contingent work constitutes one of the most controversial labor issues. In this era of
corporate downsizing and a general sense of job insecurity, the notion that American …

Existing research tends to depict contingent work either as having similar implications for
firms and workers in all settings or as varying in its implications depending only on …

The increasing use of contingent employment has caused extensive writing and debate
among academics and practitioners in recent years. The concept contingent employment …

Purpose–The main goal of this article is to present a new taxonomy of contingent
employment that better represents the wide variety of part‐time, temporary, and contract …

In the past decade there has been growing internationally-based evidence towards a trend
in organizational staffing strategies which have placed emphasis upon the direct or brokered …

The US economy appears to be headed in a variety of contradictory directions. While
managers of major corporations create familyresponsive policies on the one hand, those …

The US economy is undergoing a major change in the way labor is used and people are
employed. Individuals are now less likely to stay with one company for the duration of their …

There are several terms for contingent work and the activities surrounding the use of
contingent workers. Some of the most common terms are strategic staffing, market-mediated …

To some, the terms" contingent work" and" bad jobs" are synonymous, although that was not
necessarily what was intended when the phrase was originally coined. To examine how …