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Peer reviewedPolivka, Anne E. – Monthly Labor Review, 1996
Based on data from the supplement to the February 1995 Current Population Survey, contingent workers were more likely to be female, black, young, enrolled in school, and employed in services and construction industries than were noncontingent workers. More than 10% were teachers. (Author)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Flexible Working Hours, Tables (Data), Work Environment
Peer reviewedPolivka, Anne E. – Monthly Labor Review, 1996
Discusses the definitions of contingent workers and alternative work arrangements used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to analyze data, and presents aggregate estimates of the number of workers in each group. Discusses the overlap between contingent workers and workers in alternative arrangements. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Employment Statistics, Estimation (Mathematics), Flexible Working Hours, Labor Force
Peer reviewedRothstein, Donna S. – Monthly Labor Review, 1996
Explores the impact on workers of being in a nonstandard employment arrangement. Examines the distribution of workers among various arrangements and looks at aspects of work behavior and life events that may have influenced their working in a nonstandard arrangement. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employment Patterns, Flexible Working Hours, Labor Force
Young, Ruth C.; And Others – 1979
To provide current demographic and needs assessment information for public and private agencies serving migrants, a survey was conducted among farmers and the migrant workers they employed. Of 228 migrant labor camps in western and central New York, 57 were selected for study by a stratified random sampling procedure which assured adequate…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Blacks, Crew Leaders, Demography
Download full textAmerican Federation of Teachers, 2002
While teachers and school administrators play a highly visible role in education, other school team members work behind the scenes: food service workers, school nurses, school security, custodians, maintenance workers, classroom instructional assistants, bus drivers, secretaries and office employees. In the American Federation of Teachers (AFT),…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Food Service, School Nurses, School Security
Fagan, Colette; Burchell, Brendan – 2002
Trends in gender, jobs, and working conditions in the European Union (EU) were examined. In 2000, representative samples of approximately 1,500 workers in each of the EU member states (500 in Luxembourg) were surveyed. To identify trends, the survey findings were compared with those of similar surveys conducted in 1991 and 1996. The comparison…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Employment Qualifications
de Wolff, Alice – 2000
A survey of 205 people, 4 group interviews with approximately 30 people, and 6 design and analysis meetings involving approximately 40 people were conducted in a 1999 participatory study of contingent workers in Toronto. (Contingent work was defined to be lower-waged forms of non-permanent work arrangements that include contracting, employment…
Descriptors: Adults, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
