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Atypical workforce: raising the status of part‐time employment‐Canada
Author(s) -
Robinson Olive
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1991.tb00626.x
Subject(s) - workforce , raising (metalworking) , politics , theme (computing) , government (linguistics) , political science , intervention (counseling) , working time , economic growth , public administration , labour economics , demographic economics , economics , law , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , computer science , operating system , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , engineering , psychiatry
Part‐time employment is a theme of major significance in political and corporate debate in the European Community. This article extends the debate to the Canadian experience and concludes that even with government intervention there has been no significant improvement in the status of part‐time workers over the last decade.