Labour markets and employment practices in the age of flexibility: a case study of Silicon Valley.
Flexible employment in Silicon Valley, California, has accounted for over half of the area's total employment growth in the past ten years, and given the area's trend-setting role in global high-technology production, this pattern will probably spread. Temporary employment and other forms of flexib...
| Publicado en: | International Labour Review Vol. 136; pp. 27 - 49 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Spring 1997
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