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Workers enter contingent and alternative arrangements from many different activities and for a wide variety of reasons; while some workers are involuntarily in such arrangements, as a proportion of the employed, they are relatively few. This article examines the reasons why workers would enter into contingent or alternative employment arrangements.
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