PERMANENT TEMPS\ TOYOTA, OTHERS HIRE 'TEMPORARY' WORKERS FOR THE LONG TERM.(Business) From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: December 1, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Cincinnati Post. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Jonathan Weisman Washington Post

Temporary workers, or what economists call the "contingent" workforce, have become a vast and growing labor pool tenuously employed in jobs that once were stable enough to support a family.

In a single generation, these "contingent employment arrangements" have begun to transform the world of work, not only for temp workers, but also for those in traditional jobs who are competing with a tier of employees receiving low...