Labor's new frontier: temps and contingent workers

Article Abstract:

The editor discusses how changes in technology have lead to changes in the workplace, including the trend toward hiring part-time, independent contractors through temporary employment agencies rather than maintaining full-time employees, which has lead to more people being employed in short-term, low-paying jobs since 1980. Issues include how temporary work lowers wages, downgrades work conditions for all employees, effects workers' ability to unionize, and finally, how unions are reorganizing to accommodate this new labor force.

Column, Labor economics, Temporary employees

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Labor rights in the global economy

Article Abstract:

This article introduces themes for discussion in this issue of the magazine. Issues include the deteriorating role of labor unions and workers rights in the era of increasing neoliberal global capitalism and the effects of deregulation, the lack of states' power to control multinational corporations and provide protection for workers or the environment, the rise of international trade blocs, and questions on how labor unions should deal with an increasingly hostile global economy.

Social aspects, Editorial, International business enterprises, Multinational corporations, Influence, Capitalism, Globalization

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Organizing home health-care workers: a New York City case study

Article Abstract:

The relationships between public employees, unions, and government are examined in a NY study of the organizing of home health care workers in the 1980s. Workers' attempts to improve wages, collective bargaining and strikes as forms of political pressure, and labor unions' serving as social movements are discussed.

New York, Statistical Data Included, Methods, Political activity, Political aspects, Medical personnel, Collective bargaining, Public employees, Government employees, Home care services, Strikes, Unionization, Home care services industry

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