Publication Date

11-29-2006

DOI

10.17848/9781429454889

Abstract

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of nonstandard employment and its impact on employees, businesses, unions, and public policy. It not only reveals how nonstandard employment operates in the United States, Japan, and Europe, it also highlights the important similarities and differences in the labor market issues faced in those areas.

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Download 1. Introduction / Sandra E. Gleason (379 KB)

Download 2. Operationalizing the Shadow Workforce: Toward an Understanding of the Participants in Nonstandard Employment Relationships / Courtney von Hippel, Venkat Bendapudi, Judith Tansky, David B. Greenberger, Stephen L. Mangum, and Robert L. Heneman (301 KB)

Download 3. Employer Perspectives: Competing through a Flexible Workforce / Douglas J. Miller and Jay B. Barney (299 KB)

Download 4. Union Responses to the Challenges of Contingent Work Arrangements / M. Catherine Lundy, Karen Roberts, and Douglas Becker (366 KB)

Download 5. No Safe Harbor: A Review of Significant Laws Affecting Contingent Workers / Thomas A. Coens and Alvin L. Storrs (313 KB)

Download 6. Public Policy and Contingent Workers / Jeffrey B. Wenger (357 KB)

Download 7. Japan's Growing Shadow Workforce / Cynthia Ozeki and Akira Wakisaka (344 KB)

Download 8. Employment Policies and Labor Union Activities for Part-Time Workers and Dispatched Workers in Japan / Kazunari Honda (302 KB)

Download 9. Temporary Agency Work in Europe / François Michon (311 KB)

Download 10. Where Do We Go from Here? / Sandra E. Gleason (329 KB)

Contents

1. Introduction / Sandra E. Gleason

Part 1: The Shadow Workforce in the United States

2. Operationalizing the Shadow Workforce: Toward an Understanding of the Participants in Nonstandard Employment Relationships / Courtney von Hippel, Venkat Bendapudi, Judith Tansky, David B. Greenberger, Stephen L. Mangum, and Robert L. Heneman

Part 2: Workplace Policy Issues for Employers and Unions in the United States

3. Employer Perspectives: Competing through a Flexible Workforce / Douglas J. Miller and Jay B. Barney

4. Union Responses to the Challenges of Contingent Work Arrangements / M. Catherine Lundy, Karen Roberts, and Douglas Becker

Part 3: U.S. Public Policy toward the Shadow Workforce

5. No Safe Harbor: A Review of Significant Laws Affecting Contingent Workers / Thomas A. Coens and Alvin L. Storrs

6. Public Policy and Contingent Workers / Jeffrey B. Wenger

Part 4: Perspectives on the Shadow Workforce from Japan and Europe

7. Japan’s Growing Shadow Workforce / Cynthia Ozeki and Akira Wakisaka

8. Employment Policies and Labor Union Activities for Part-Time Workers and Dispatched Workers in Japan / Kazunari Honda

9. Temporary Agency Work in Europe / François Michon

Part 5: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

10. Where Do We Go from Here? / Sandra E. Gleason

ISBN

9780880992893 (cloth) ; 9780880992886 (pbk.) ; 9781429454889 (ebook)

Subject Areas

LABOR MARKET ISSUES; Employment relationships; Nonstandard work arrangements

The Shadow Workforce: Perspectives on Contingent Work in the United States, Japan, and Europe

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Gleason, Sandra E., ed. 2006. The Shadow Workforce: Perspectives on Contingent Work in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. https://doi.org/10.17848/9781429454889

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