Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contra…
Preface -- Chapter 1: Unlikely Rebels -- Itinerant Experts -- The Unraveling of Permanent Employment -- The Legal Context of Contingent Work -- Estimating the Size of the Contingent Workforce -- Making Sense of Contingent Work -- The Study -- Organization of the Book -- Part I: …
Offers a description of how contracting works. This book tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing a…
"Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker dea…
Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contra…