Research Catalog

Title

Workers without traditional employment : an international study of non-standard work / John Mangan.

Author

Mangan, John.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xvii, 205 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Workers Without Traditional Employment aims to provide a comprehensive and global analysis of the significant changes in employment relationships that have occurred over the last two decades. The author discusses the incidence, causes, and social and economic implications of non-standard employment. Shifts in the nature of employment are placed within the wider context of modern labour markets seeking to cope with rapid changes in international business practice and the pressures of a globalised economy. The book argues that while much non-standard employment has country-specific aspects, there exists a common set of underlying factors influencing the spread of non-standard employment across the world.
• The final part of the book deals with the implications of employment change for work/family interaction and examines likely future trends." "This book will be invaluable reading for academics and researchers in economics, business and industrial relations as well as social scientists and professionals within the business world."--Jacket.

Subject

• Labor
• Work > Forecasting
• Employment forecasting
• Work
• labor
• Arbeit
• Beschäftigungsform
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Strukturwandel
• Teilzeitbeschäftigung
• Telearbeit
• Arbeidsmarkt
• Deeltijdarbeid
• Eigen werk
• Tijdelijke arbeid
• Prognoses
• Arbeit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and index.

Contents

The Incidence of Non-Standard Employment -- Non-standard Employment: Incidence and Definitional Problems -- Part-time work -- The incidence of part-time work -- Part-time work and multiple job-holding -- Temporary work -- Casual and contingent employment -- Contingent employment in the USA -- Self-employed -- Distribution of non-standard work between private and public sector -- Other forms of non-standard work -- Explaining Non-Standard Employment -- The Determinants of the Rise in Non-standard Employment -- Demand-side explanations -- Flexible firm theory -- On-costs and employment legislation -- Technical change -- Non-standard work as a screening device -- Supply factors -- Institutional factors -- Empirical Evidence on the Determinants of Non-standard Employment -- Part-time work -- Determinants of casual employment -- Model specification and description of variables -- Self-employed/contractors -- Contract employment -- The Economic and Social Implications of Non-Standard Employment -- Job Stability and Job Satisfaction -- Job stability and job tenure -- Job security: how much is it worth? -- Non-standard employment and job satisfaction -- Other studies of job satisfaction -- Implications for Labour Market Organisations and Economic Performance -- Trade unions -- Union decline and non-standard employment -- Implications of a decline in trade union organisations -- Productivity -- Other industrial relations issues -- Wages and equity -- Other macro impacts from the increasing levels of atypical work -- Training issues.

ISBN

• 184064267X
• 9781840642674

LCCN

00044258

OCLC

• ocm44270399
• 44270399
• SCSB-1143541

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library