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The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations provides a systematic, comprehensive survey of the field. The result is a work of unprecedented scope and unparalleled ambition. It offers a compete guide to the central debates, new developments, and emerging themes in the field. It will quickly be recognized as the indispensable reference for teachers, students and researchers. It is relevant to economists, lawyers, sociologists, business and management researchers, and Industrial Relations specialists.
Contingent Work Arrangements
Contingent Work Arrangements
During the past few decades there has been a gradual international trend toward a fundamental restructuring of the employment contracts between organizations and workers. At the broadest level there has been the suggestion that the ‘normal’ or ‘standard’ work arrangements of most workers during the twentieth century has increasingly been replaced with ‘alternative’ or ‘non-standard’ work arrangements (Bergstrøm and Storrie, 2003; Gallie et al., 1998; Kalleberg et al., 2003; Quinlan and Bohle, 2004; Smith, 2001; Voudouris, 2004; Zeytino?lu, 1999). One such growing form of non-standard employment, by contemporary standards, is the hiring of workers on ‘contingent’ or ‘fixed-term contracts.’
The objective of this chapter is to provide a brief description, explanation, and evaluation of the growing worldwide presence of contingent employment ...
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