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CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP WASHINGTON — Hiring is exploding in the one corner of the U.S. economy where few want to be hired: temporary work. From Wal-Mart to General Motors to PepsiCo, companies are increasingly turning to temps and to a much...

by Michael Grabell CHICAGO — Ty Inc. became one of the world's largest manufacturers of stuffed animals thanks to the Beanie Babies craze in the 1990s. But it has stayed on top partly by using an underworld of labor brokers known as raiteros, who pick...

The shift among businesses and workers toward contingent work arrangements appears to be accelerating and contingent work arrangement models are evolving, often through technological advances. One of these emerging and fast-growing models is Task-to...

In late 2014, Atlantic writer, Alana Semuels, penned an article titled, “A New Business Strategy: Treating Employees Well”. Describing how companies fluctuated their treatment of employees throughout history, Semuels wrote, In the heady, post-World...

The number of workers classified as temps grew 41 percent from 2008 to 2012, according to a just released study by the National Employment Law project. What some critics call “modern day sweat shops” of disposable workers, temporary staffing...