Download or read book Contingent Work written by Kathleen Barker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This book examines the consequences of working contingently for the individual, family, and community.
Download or read book Careers and Contingency written by Gillian L. L. Lester and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disagreement among legal scholars over the phenomenon of "contingent employment" has led to disparate prescriptions for reform. For some, government regulation of contingent work is at best unnecessary, and at worst counterproductive, and the best solution would be to eliminate the existing regulations that provide employers with the incentive to create contingent jobs. Others believe current regulations do not go far enough and advocate additional reforms, ranging from expanding mandatory benefits and protections, to facilitating collective bargaining among contingent workers in order to restore such benefits as long-term security, training, and career advancement. The debate about law reform has centered partly on disputes over the size, growth and characteristics of the contingency phenomenon. Workers described as "contingent" under various definitions are so eclectic as to render broad-brush claims on both sides of the debate misleading. As an alternative, I offer the concept of "underemployment"--a failure of the market to match workers with jobs that fully exploit their human capital and preferences--as a better explanation of labor market problems that concern, or ought to concern, policy makers. More fundamentally, however, opponents in the debate disagree on basic assumptions about how labor markets work. Orthodox neoclassical economists, who generally oppose regulation, believe that workers are matched with jobs in accordance with a combination of their human capital, preferences, and employers' needs. Reform-minded "strong segmentationists," by contrast, argue that contingent jobs tend to be dead-end "secondary" jobs, often involuntary and alienating. Finding both orthodox and strong segmentationist accounts incomplete, I turn to "New Keynesian" explanations of labor markets, originally developed to explain equilibrium unemployment. I argue that this third approach can provide important insights on contingent employment that have largely eluded contemporary debates on contingency. Finally, I discuss the implications of New Keynesian accounts for policy reform, identifying directions for further research.
Download or read book Careers and Contingencies written by Shirley S. Angrist and published by Dunellen Publishing Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social research monograph on occupational choices of female college students in the USA - examines girls' attitudes towards employment of married women with families, etc., and includes the results of a four-year follow up study of 87 young women who began their higher education in 1964. Bibliography pp. 245 to 261 and statistical tables.
Download or read book Career Work Life Extension Through Contingency Employment written by Jennifer R. Traglia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Career Contingencies in an Emerging Profession written by Paul Albert McWilliams and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Career Contingencies written by Alison Davis-Blake and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contingent Work written by Kathleen Barker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations. It delineates essential features of contingent work from both the worker's and the organization's point of view. Articulating a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, the contributors examine the business forces driving contingent work and assess the consequences of working contingently for the individual, family, and community, taking into account issues of race, class, and gender. They ask how current labor and employment laws need to be rewritten to provide contingent workers with the same comprehensive protections offered to permanent employees. In the final chapter, the editors comment on the status of research on contingent work and chart future research directions.
Download or read book Career Patterns and Career Contingencies in Sport written by International Committee for the Sociology of Sport. Regional Symposium and published by UBC, Department of Recreation & Leisure Studies. This book was released on 1981 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chaos Theory of Careers written by Robert Pryor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development, emphasizing the dimensions of careers frequently neglected by contemporary accounts.
Download or read book Contingency Planning in Today s Workplace written by Lisa Punter and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contingency plan is necessary whether you are just starting a new job, recently promoted, transitioning, or beginning your career. Contingency planning ensures you aren't the victim of flux, but rather its master or at least its tamer. It's not full proof, of course, but it minimizes surprises at work and maximizes your ability to shape the course of events in your career. Contingency planning starts with situational awareness - a recognition of what's going on around you - in your work team, your employer, your profession, your industry, even your hometown. The key to realizing its benefits - avoiding unpleasant surprises and achieving desired goals - is constant reassessment. Inside this book, I will give you 8 tips on how you can avoid landmines, start your plan, and be authentic at the same time.
Download or read book Network Contingencies written by Zun Tang and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Careers and contingencies written by Shirley S. Angrist and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Use Group Contingencies written by Saul Axelrod and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge written by Eliot Freidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Medical Professionals and Their Work" conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. It is now well established that the unique symbolic equipment of the human animal is intimately connected with the functioning of the body. Freidson and Lorber believe that the proper understanding of specifically human rather than generally "animal" illness requires careful and systematic study of the social meanings surrounding illness.The content of social meanings varies from culture to culture and from one historical period to another. As important as the content of those social meanings, is the organization of groups who serve as carriers and, sometimes, creators. In the case of illness, a critical difference exists between those considered to be competent to diagnose and treat the sick and those excluded from this special privilege - a separation as old as the shaman or medicine-man. Such differences become solidified when the expert healer becomes a member of an organized, full-time occupation, sustained in monopoly over the work of diagnosis and treatment by the force of the state, and invested with the authority to make official designation of the social meanings to be ascribed to physical states.The medical profession in advanced nations is in a vise between professional needs and political demands. Its organization and its knowledge establish many of the conditions for being recognizably and legitimately ill, and the professional controls many of the circumstances of treatment. It thus plays a central role in shaping the experience of being ill. With this fact of modern life in mind, this collection on the character of experts or professionals in general and of medicine as a profession in particular is uniquely fashioned.
Download or read book Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States written by Ola Bergström and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bergström and Storrie are to be praised for what stands as a highly readable, engaging account of the development of temporary work, and also one that breaks new ground. The focus here is not just on profiling national trends, but also on locating them in a broader regulatory context. At a time when even the most passive regulation is derided for undermining "flexibility" and holding back growth, the insights contained in this book are of considerable value. In my view, Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States should be essential reading both for academics and policymakers.' - Ian Kirkpatrick, Industrial Relations Journal Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States examines the developments in labour markets in advanced economies in the 21st century, as regards contingent employment. This is defined as employment relationships that can be terminated with minimal costs within a predetermined period of time. This includes fixed-term contracts, temporary agency work and self-employment. Contingent employment has been the subject of much legislative activity in the last decade, at both the national and European level. Temporary agency work, in particular, has recently been extensively deregulated in most European countries and currently we await the fate of a proposed EU directive on agency work. The book is therefore highly topical.
Download or read book Early Career Contingencies in the Process of Status Attainment written by Alan C. Kerckhoff and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
