Contingent work: The role of the market, collective bargaining, and legislation

This paper examines the relationship between contingent employment and labor rights through the lens of the three main mechanisms for regulating the employment relationship: the labor market, collective bargaining, and legislation. Emphasis is placed not only on how issues pertaining to labor rights and contingent employment are handled by each of these three mechanisms but also on how the three mechanisms have given rise to contingent employment in the first place. Elements of appropriate policy responses are discussed in light of the changing role of these three mechanisms for dealing with labor rights and contingent employment.