Flexible labor: restructuring the American work force.
Many businesses are replacing directly hired people with purchases of services and are moving toward the hiring of contingent workers. Flexible work arrangements have been used as a way to meet fluctuations in demand for a company's product, to supplement absent staff, and to lower the cost of labor...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 120; pp. 3 - 18 |
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US Department of Labor
August 1997
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