Chris Tilly

Half a Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of how US businesses use part-time employment, and why they are using it more and more. Examining the nature and purposes of the different types of part-time employment, this work explores the roots of part-time jobs in the organization of work, and the inadequacies of the public policies on part-time employment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781566393829
• ISBN-10: 1566393825
• Artikelnr.: 21859392

Autorenporträt

Chris Tilly is Associate Professor in the Department of Policy and Planning at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
1. Half a Job Is Not Enough
2. Why Has Part-Time Employment Continued to Grow?
3. Two Theoretical Frameworks
4. Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs
5. Implications of the Distinction Between Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs
6. How Businesses Set the Level of Part-Time Employment
7. Cycles and Trends
8. The Case for New Policies
Appendix: A Formal Model of the Cyclical Adjustment of Part-Time Employment
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Noncyclical Industries
Notes
References
Index