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Contingent Work (contingent + work)
Selected AbstractsThe Influence of Regular Work Systems on Compensation for Contingent WorkersINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 4 2003Article first published online: 16 SEP 200, Brenda A. Lautsch Using data from a nationally representative survey of U.S. establishments, this article explores how features of regular work influence outcomes for contingent workers. The results show that firms combine regular and contingent work in varied ways: Some managers design contingent work to achieve performance objectives not possible with the regular workforce, whereas managers in other cases create contingent jobs to reinforce the same goals as regular work. In the latter case, contingent workers are more likely to be integrated with regular workers and to receive benefits. Benefit provision for contingent workers is also influenced by traditional internal labor market rules and by spillover effects in which efficiency or regulatory requirements lead benefits to be extended to contingent staff once offered to regular workers. [source] The Role of Government in the Expansion of the Contingent WorkforceASIAN POLITICS AND POLICY, Issue 2 2010Jiyoung Kim This article examines the government's role in expansion of the contingent workforce in South Korea. I argue that the government played a determining role in transforming the South Korean labor market and increasing the number of contingent workers. Through the active adoption of a flexible labor market policy as a part of its globalization movement, the South Korean government directly contributed to a rise in contingent work. Also, the South Korean government indirectly supported the expanded use of non-regular workers through its tacit approval of companies' illegal use of contingent workers. The existing literature on contingent workers has focused primarily on economic factors. This case study highlights the need to include the role of government as an important cause of the growth of the contingent workforce. [source] Beyond the enterprise: trade union representation of freelances in the UKHUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Issue 2 2004Edmund Heery Interest has grown in the methods that trade unions can use to organise and represent the substantial proportion of the workforce engaged in ,contingent work'. This article examines trade union representation of self-employed freelances in the UK. Empirical material is presented from case studies of the media and entertainment unions, with their long history of representing freelances, and more recently established unions representing freelance tour guides, interpreters and translators. The analysis indicates that there is a distinctive form of freelance unionism in the UK which is distinguished by its emphasis on organising and representing workers in the external labour market where they seek work and develop a mobile career. This orientation ,beyond the enterprise' distinguishes freelance unionism from the dominant form of unionism in Britain. [source] One Store, Two Employment Systems: Core, Periphery and Flexibility in China's Retail SectorBRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2009Jos Gamble Research on ,flexible' or ,contingent work', derived primarily from manufacturing and production contexts in Western settings, has often been theorized in terms of a core-periphery model. Based upon ethnographic research on vendor representatives and regular store employees conducted at a multinational retail firm in China, we indicate that this model is insufficient to capture the complexity of employment arrangements in this context. This article delineates the coexistence of two employment systems and a quadrilateral relationship in which workers' interests sometimes overlap but often compete. Our research also indicates that institutional arrangements in China significantly affect the strategies that are open to firms and the consequent structure of employment relations. [source] | ||||||||||