The 'just in time' worker. (part-time and temporary workers; includes related article on part-time mourners in Japan)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: November 23, 1987| Author: Brohpy, Beth; Lord, Mary | Copyright information

The "just in time' worker

Meet America's shadow labor force. Its members aren't the illegal aliens and moonlighters who lurk in the underground economy, but the some 25 million temporary, part-time, self-employed and other workers who make up the nation's burgeoning "contingent' work force. Contingent workers--so called because employers can expand or contract their numbers according to business conditions--fill 1 out of every 4 American jobs today. By the year 2000, th...

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