Marginal Employment by Randy Hodson

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Provides students and researchers with a grounding both in traditional aspects of marginality and in the important topics of part-time and contingent work. This book helps you learn more about the growing range and diversity of marginal employment in the contemporary economy, the hardships and challenges of marginal employment.

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Marginal Employment by Randy Hodson

This volume will provide students and researchers alike with a solid grounding both in traditional aspects of marginality and in the increasing important topics of part-time and contingent work. The reader will have the opportunity to learn more about the growing range and diversity of marginal employment in the contemporary economy, the hardships and unique challenges of marginal employment, and the new and creative matches between people and jobs that are currently being explored outside traditional full-time employment relationships.
Hodson, Randy: - Randy Hodson received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and is currently Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. His research interests include worker-management conflict, managerial behavior, coworker relations, and technological change. His international interests include ethnic relations in the states of the former Yugoslavia and the socialism to market transition. He is editor of the JAI Press annual series on RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK and is currently working on a National Science Foundation sponsored project to content code book-length organizational ethnographies. He has received a Distinguished University Teaching Award from Ohio State University, as well as numerous awards for his research and scholarship. He is currently the editor of AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. For more information, see his website at: http: //www.soc.sbs.ohio-state.edu/rdh/.
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ISBN 13 9780762306503
ISBN 10 0762306505
Title Marginal Employment
Author Randy Hodson
Series Research In The Sociology Of Work
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Year published 2000-12-20
Number of pages 332
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