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Measuring Alternative Work Arrangements for Research and Policy by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Contingent Work and Alternative Work Arrangements, issuing body; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, issuing body; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, issuing body is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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xii, 157 pages : 23 cm Business structures, employment relationships, job characteristics, and worker outcomes have changed in the United States over the last few decades--in some ways unpredictably. A high level of interest exists among policy makers and researchers in addressing concerns about the future of work in the United States. These concerns are heightened by the perceived fracturing of relationships between workers and employers, the loss of safety net protections and benefits to workers, the growing importance of access to skills and education as the impacts of new technologies and automation are felt, and the market-based pressure that companies face to produce short-term profits, sometimes at the expense of long-term value. These issues, as well as related ones such as wage stagnation and job quality, are often associated with alternative work arrangements (AWAs)--which include independent-contractor and other nonemployee jobs, work through intermediaries such as temporary help agencies and other contract companies, and work with unpredictable schedules--although they also pertain to many standard jobs. A better understanding of the magnitude of and trends in AWAs, alo
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- Author
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Contingent Work and Alternative Work Arrangements, issuing body; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, issuing body; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, issuing body
- Publisher
- Washington, DC: The National Academies Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780309678483
- Category
- nonfiction
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