Nonstandard Employment Relations: Part-time, Temporary and Contract Work
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Nonstandard employment relations—such as part-time work, temporary help agency and contract company employment, short-term and contingent work, and independent contracting—have become increasingly prominent ways of organizing work in recent years. Our understanding of these nonstandard work arrangements has been hampered by inconsistent definitions, often inadequate measures, and the paucity of comparative research. This chapter reviews the emerging research on these nonstandard work arrangements. The review emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of contributions to this field, including research by a variety of sociologists, economists, and psychologists. It also focuses on cross-national research, which is needed to investigate how macroeconomic, political, and institutional factors affect the nature of employment relations. Areas for future research are suggested.
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Temporary agency workers establish a double employment relationship involving two entities and develop two different affective commitments, each in response to the support they receive from each organization, the agency and the client-company.
“Moreover, in the specific case of TAWs, they establish a double employment relationship that involves two different entities [47] and, therefore, they develop two different affective commitments, each in response to the support they receive from each organization—the agency and the client-company [15,18].”
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- Authors
- Kalleberg, A. L.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kalleberg, Arne L.
- ORCID
- Kalleberg, Arne L.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Sociology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2000-08
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 341-365
- ISSN
- 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2115
- OpenAlex
- W2154756042
- Cited by
- 1,595
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Employment and Welfare Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Labor Law and Work Dynamics
- Keywords
- part-time work, temporary help agencies, contract work, short-term work, contingent employment, independent contracting, employment relations, cross-national comparison
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