"The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work―an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation f ..."
Workplace Flexibility(1st Edition) Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce by KathleenChristensen, Barbara Schneider Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2010 by Ilr Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-7585-6, ISBN: 0-8014-7585-6
"Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees.Workplace Flexibility brin ..."
"Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's. Turbulent competitive conditions have cut sharply into profits and have forced downsizings and radical readjustments in America's workplaces. Workplace turbulence has resulted in lost jobs, declining incomes, and falling productivity for American labor. From the perspectives of business and labor, turbulence and its conseque ..."
"This eleventh volume in the series departs from the pattern of earlier volumes. Some of those volumes addressed research, design, and policy topics in terms of environmental settings, for example, homes, communities, neighborhoods, and public places. Others focused on environmental users, for example, chil dren and the elderly. The present volume examines the field of environment and behavior studies itself ..."
Contingent Work American Employment Relations in Transition (ILR Press Books) by KathleenChristensen, Kathleen Barker Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 1998 by Ilr Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-3369-6, ISBN: 0-8014-3369-X
"The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work--an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation ..."
Land Development Impact Social Impact of Land Development : An Initial Approach for Estimating Impacts on Neighborhood Usages and Perceptions by KathleenChristensen Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1976 by University Press Of America ISBN-13: 978-0-87766-171-9, ISBN: 0-87766-171-5
"Workplace flexibility, work-family conflict, and time famine have taken the spotlight in recent years as politicians from all sides of the political spectrum have pointed to the need for increasing workplace flexibility. In today's economy and work environment, what does workplace flexibility mean; how does it affect different groups of people; and is it important to national security? This special issue addresses these questions with a ..."
"The legal profession, where billable hours are tantamount to employees'
economic worth, is not an industry one would associate with flexibility. However,
the Bailey Law Group, a law firm in Washington, D.C., a company of twelve
employees on-site and sixteen total, proves that what might seem impossible can
not only work but can also make business sense. Kathy Bailey did not set out to
provide workplace flexibility when she founded ..."
"... in restricting the study to the present. The patterns from the past are more
visible, providing directions as to what to investigate in the contemporary realm ...
It demonstrated the importance of talking to all the people in a setting, not just the
powerful or conspicuous people, to look closely at what was happening, to check
for archival information, and to put all of this evidence together in analyzing the
questions under s ..."
"Peter B. Doeringer, Kathleen Christensen, Patricia M. Flynn, Douglas T. Hall,
Harry C. Katz, Jeffrey H. Keefe, Christopher J. Ruhm, Andrew M. Sum, Michael
Useem ... See John T. Addison and Pedro Portugal, "The Effect of Advance
Notification of Plant Closings on Unemployment," Industrial and Labor Relations
Review 41 (1987): 3-16; Kletzer, "Determinants of the Reemployment
Probabilities"; Podgursky and Swaim, "Duration of Joblessnes ..."
"This eleventh volume in the series departs from the pattern of earlier volumes. Some of those volumes addressed research, design, and policy topics in terms of environmental settings, for example, homes, communities, neighborhoods, and public places. Others focused on environmental users, for example, chil dren and the elderly. The present volume examines the field of environment and behavior studies itself in the form of intellectual ..."
Contingent Work American Employment Relations in Transition by Kathleen Barker, KathleenChristensen 368 Pages, Published 2019 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2086-4, ISBN: 1-5017-2086-4
"This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations."
"This book focuses on the causes and consequences of paid white-collar work in the home, including work that is professional, managerial, clerical, technical, and sales."
"Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not, and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees. Workplace Flexibility br ..."