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Supiot, Alain; And Others – International Labour Review, 1996
This special theme issue includes: "Perspectives on Work" (Supiot); "Work and Usefulness to the World" (Castel); "Work and Identity in India" (Heuze-Brigant); "New Perspectives on Work as Value" (Meda); "Decline and Resurgence of Unremunerated Work" (Le Guidec); "Work and Public/Private…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Foreign Countries
Erickcek, George; Houseman, Susan; Kalleberg, Arne – 2002
A study examined why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and implications of these practices for wages, benefits, and working conditions of workers in low-skilled labor markets. Case studies in manufacturing (automotive supply), services (hospitals), and public sector (primary and secondary schools) industries defined the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns
Houseman, Susan N. – 2001
Workers in flexible staffing arrangementsincluding temporary agency, direct-hire temporary, on-call, and contract workersare much less likely than regular, direct-hire employees to be covered by laws mandating or regulating workplace benefits. They are also much less likely to receive pension, health insurance, and other benefits on the job.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Mendelievich, Elias, Ed. – 1980
The aim of this book is to examine the problem of child labor in various parts of the world: to make the phenomenon known, to analyze its causes, and to propose possible solutions. In Part I (by Elias Mendelievich), an introduction first outlines the problem. Chapter 2 examines pertinent international and national legislation and the International…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Child Welfare, Childrens Rights, Cultural Background
Smith, Leslie Whitener; Coltrane, Robert – 1981
Farmers and their families continue to provide the largest proportion of agricultural labor, but hired farmworkers are increasingly supplying a greater part of farm employment. This trend is expected to continue in the eighties with the hired labor proportion gradually increasing. Better information, including crucial individual state data on…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Compensation (Remuneration), Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns
Bernhardt, Annette; Bailey, Thomas – IEE Brief, 1997
Economic, technological, and political changes have created a new employment relationship characterized by an externalized labor market, more tenuous ties between workers and employers, and growing wage inequality. To date, policymakers have sought to address these problems through a supply-side approach focused on education and training. What is…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Ladders, Cooperative Planning
Date-Bah, Eugenia, Ed. – 1997
This document contains papers in which 12 experienced gender specialists examine the various developments and elements affecting women's participation as equal players in the workplace and propose actions and policies promoting sex equity in the workplace. The following papers are included: "Preface" (Mary Chinery-Hesse); "Introduction " (Eugenia…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Cappelli, Peter; Bassi, Laurie; Katz, Harry; Knoke, David; Osterman, Paul; Useem, Michael – 1997
This book estimates and analyzes the changes currently under way in the U.S. workplace. The book's seven chapters are: (1) "The Pressures To Restructure Employment" (effects of labor law and public policy, increased competitiveness, new markets, financial restructuring, investor pressures, new management techniques, faces and effects of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporations, Economic Change, Education Work Relationship
Osterman, Paul; Kochan, Thomas A.; Locke, Richard; Piore, Michael J. – 2001
The evolution of jobs and the job market in the United States was examined in a 3-year project during which a task force consisting of 25 representatives of the education, labor, business, and policy sectors organized 17 workshops and commissioned working papers from experts. The project began by examining how recent changes in the world of work…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Corporations, Cultural Pluralism, Demand Occupations
Ng, Roxana; Wong, Renita Yuk-Lin; Choi, Angela – 1999
The current conditions of home workers in the garment industry in Toronto, Canada, were examined through in-depth telephone interviews with 30 Chinese-speaking immigrant women who were employed as home workers in 1999. The paper dicusses the formal training and informal learning experiences of immigrant woman who are garment workers. A comparison…
Descriptors: Child Care, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal), Consciousness Raising