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Developing the flexible library and information workforce.

Author(s) -

Anne Goulding,

Evelyn Kerslake

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

library and information research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2752-7336

pISSN - 1756-1086

DOI - 10.29173/lirg406

Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , workforce , business , happening , labour economics , marketing , industrial organization , public relations , computer science , management , economics , political science , economic growth , art , performance art , art history

Flexibility is a vaguely defined media buzzword connoting the progressive, forward-looking workplace. Employers report that increased labour market flexibility has made them more cost-effective, efficient, better able to deal with customer and employee demands and the implementation of new technology. But what is happening to those workers who make up the flexible workforce? For a while in the 1980s it seemed that flexibility could do no wrong; now, however, the shortcomings of flexible labour markets are becoming more apparent.

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