These workers constitute the most vulnerable segment of the workforce.
What segment of the workforce does Mr. Stern now hope to organize?
However, they took no account of the already efficient nature of this particular segment of the workforce, delivering services that were already understaffed.
Martha (whose name, like others in this article, has been changed) is part of a burgeoning segment of the workforce loosely known as the gig economy.
But "what this data is telling us is a very large segment of the workforce is not participating in that form of compensation.
If we were designing a labor market from scratch today, we certainly wouldn't create one that supports just one segment of the workforce and penalizes everyone else.
By the end of the 20th century, these three activities accounted for just a tiny fraction of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employed a comparably small segment of the workforce.
By the early 21st century growth had slowed somewhat, but the sector still accounted for more than one-fourth of Indiana's gross state product and employed a significant segment of the workforce.
Once the heart of Virginia's economy, agriculture, forestry, and fishing now constitute less than 1percentt of the state's gross product, and the sector employs just a small segment of the workforce.
A report on forced labour in the UK, published this month by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), found that the structure of the UK economy, through its light-touch regulation of business and its heavy hand on immigration, has created a low-paid segment of the workforce that is susceptible to forced labour.
Men in their 60s are already the fastest-growing segment of the workforce, although this has not made up for the overall decline.A rise in immigration could increase the supply of labour, too, particularly since the proportion of immigrants who work is higher than that of native-born Americans.
