 | Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition Subjects: Temporary employment -- United States; Part-time employment -- United States; Seasonal labor -- United States; Piece-work -- United States; Contract system (Labor) -- United States; Employee fringe benefits -- Law and legislation -- United States; Labor l; The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work--an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such... Kathleen Barker is a Professor of Psychology at Medgar Evers College/City University of New York. Kathleen Christensen is a Program Officer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. |
