An Analysis of Contingent Labor

Kevin Russell
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Kevin Russell: Yale Law School, 196 Crown St. #402, New Haven, CT 06510

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1991, vol. 23, issue 1-2, 208-225

Abstract: This paper finds that the number contingent workers in the economy has grown dramatically in the last few decades, especially during the 1980s, and that they are paid lowerwages, given fewer benefits, and are disproportionately young, female and minorities in comparison with their full-time permanent counterparts. The danger of contingent labor is its potential generalization throughout the economy as a profit-maximizing tool for businesses.

Date: 1991
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