The Shadow Workforce

Perspectives on Contingent Work
in the United States, Japan, and Europe

Introductory chapter | Table of Contents

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of nonstandard employment and its impact on employees, businesses, unions, and public policy. It not only reveals how nonstandard employment operates in the United States, Japan, and Europe, it also highlights the important similarities and differences in the labor market issues faced in those areas.

Key recurring concepts in the book, such as how the nonstandard workforce is measured and the meaning of labor force flexibility, are explained in the introduction. Ensuing discussions summarize and synthesize the current body of scholarly literature on the facts and challenges of nonstandard employment, and an array of tables and graphs presents a complete picture of the demographic, occupational, and industry characteristics of the nonstandard labor force.

This makes the book a one-stop, easy-to-use resource for anyone interested in learning about the characteristics of the contingent labor forces in the United States, Japan, and Europe, and the legal frameworks that guide the use of nonstandard workers in those labor markets. It also offers the reader insights into how employees, employers, unions, and policymakers perceive nonstandard employment. Included are:

• Introduction, Sandra E. Gleason
  

• Operationalizing the Shadow Workforce: Toward an Understanding of the Participants in Nonstandard Employment Relationships, Courtney von Hippel, Venkat Bendapudi, Judith Tansky, David B. Greenberger, Stephen L. Mangum, and Robert L. Heneman

• Employer Perspectives: Competing through a Flexible Workforce, Douglas J. Miller and Jay B. Barney
• Union Responses to the Challenges of Contingent Work Arrangements, M. Catherine Lundy, Karen Roberts, and Douglas Becker

• No Safe Harbor: A Review of Significant Laws Affecting Contingent Workers, Thomas A. Coens and Alvin L. Storrs
• Public Policy and Contingent Workers, Jeffrey B. Wenger

• Japan’s Growing Shadow Workforce, Cynthia Ozeki and Akira Wakisaka
• Employment Policies and Labor Union Activities for Part-Time Workers and Dispatched Workers in Japan, Kazunari Honda
• Temporary Agency Work in Europe, François Michon

• Where Do We Go from Here? Sandra E. Gleason

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