Here is something from WSJ.com that might interest you: Contract Workforce Outpaces Growth in Gig Jobs http://on.wsj.com/1Sc2QtD
The US economy is returning to the way things worked before the great depression of the 1930s. Back then. with agriculture employing a greater share of the total work force, jobs were essentially temporary — as needed during planting and then harvesting. For other workers seasonal layoffs were common and expected. Social arrangements coped in one way or another. Or didn’t. In Maine the school year started in the summer and then stopped after a few weeks. The kids were released for the potato harvest. Now we are shifting the responsibility for fluctuating demand back to workers from a few decades when employers bore more of it. Add globalization and digitalization and this will be interesting. Gene _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
