Abstract
T hese recent quotes, the first from the president of the world’s largest temporary agency, the second from the country’s most vocal advocate of temporary-employees’ rights, highlight how entrenched temporary work has become in our economy. Indeed, 10 years ago, only 100 temporaryemployment agencies existed in this country, and only about 250,000 workers were temps; today, there are close to 1,500 temporary-help services and over 1.5 million temporary workers. Moreover, temporary employment is now a $20 billion a year business. In fact, between 1991 and 1993, more than 20 percent of all the new positions created in the U.S. economy were temporary jobs. Manpower, Inc. currently has a whopping 560,000 employees, deploying more than 100,000 of them each day. And, where the temporary workforce was once largely dominated by clerical help, today it includes large numbers of technical workers, nurses and medical personnel, hotel and restaurant workers, industrial laborers, and business executives and consultants as well.
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