Re: Contingency and Irony

Doug:

The BLS definition of contingency seems quite narrow. So the BLS doesn't
think of cutting union jobs and subcontracting work to non-union suppliers
as a sign of increasing contingency, for instance. And according to its
stats, explicit 'alternative arrangements' in themselves don't make workers
'contingent.' And not all part-time workers, according to the BLS, are
contingent, as long as workers expect their jobs to last: "Only 10 percent
of all part-time workers were contingent, however."

Yoshie