Flexible employment: positive work strategies for the 21st century.
Part of a special section on flexible employment and alternative work arrangements. The writer argues that greater worker flexibility not only benefits businesses but offers individuals new pathways to permanent employment as well. Contrary to claims that businesses use flexible arrangements to av...
| Published in: | Journal of Labor Research Vol. 17; pp. 555 - 567 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
Fall 1996
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