The shadow workforce : perspectives on contingent work in the United States, Japan, and Europe / Sandra E. Gleason, editor. - Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006. - ix, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Employer perspectives : competing through a flexible workforce / Douglas J. Miller and Jay B. Barney -- Union responses to the challenges of contingent work arrangements / M. Catherine Lundy, Karen Roberts, and Douglas Becker -- No safe harbor : a review of significant laws affecting contingent workers / Thomas A. Coens and Alvin L. Storrs -- Public policy and contingent workers / Jeffrey B. Wenger -- Japan's growing shadow workforce / Cynthia Ozeki and Akira Wakisaka -- Employment policies and labor union activities for part-time workers and dispatched workers in Japan / Kazunari Honda -- Temporary agency work in Europe / François Michon -- Where do we go from here? / Sandra E. Gleason.

0880992883 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780880992886 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0880992891 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780880992893 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Temporary employment--United States.
Temporary employment--Japan.
Temporary employment--Europe.
Part-time employment--United States.
Part-time employment--Japan.
Part-time employment--Europe.
Contracting out--United States.
Contracting out--Japan.
Contracting out--Europe.

HD5854.2 / .S53 2006

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