Arlie Hochschild
Temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, part-time jobs without job security or medical benefits—is this the new American workplace? If so, what does that mean about the social worlds we build at home and at work? This volume gathers some of the best and latest thinking on an issue critical to us all.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
This book does a simply masterful job of helping us understand contingent work arrangements—numbers, consequences, and public policy concerns. In an area plagued by rhetoric and ideology, it offers facts and analysis, a dose of reality that grounds this important issue.
Arne Kalleberg
This multidisciplinary collection of first-rate papers—dealing with contingent workers, flexible workplaces, and their institutional contexts—will be an indispensable resource for anyone concerned with the changing nature of employment relations as we begin the twenty-first century.
Barbara Reskin
Barker and Christensen bring together an outstanding collection of essays on the transformation of American employment. This interdisciplinary volume provides the theoretical, historical, and legal contexts for understanding the reemergence of contingent work, and offers empirical research on its extent and its consequences for workers and their families. This volume will be useful for scholars and students interested in work in America; it is a must for policymakers, unions, and personnel specialists.