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...

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Publicado en:International Labour Review Vol. 136; pp. 27 - 49
Autores principales: Carnoy, Martin, Castells, Manuel, Benner, Chris
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Spring 1997
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        Contingent employment
        Part-time employment
        Industries
        Labor turnover
        Labor market
        Temporary employment
        California
        Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
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          Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
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