If this can be harnessed it may not offer the same opportunities for learning as would an apprenticeship model, but will offer less experienced workers alternative ways in which to draw on what is otherwise an invisible, intangible and inaccessible resource of embodied knowing, distributed across the bodies of workers in divergent locations.
First, such factories are willing employers of low-skill workers whose alternatives are often much worse: subsistence agriculture, for instance, or abject urban poverty.
As we've explained, the EITC and federal minimum wage are complementary ways to support low-wage workers, not alternatives.
Only about 12 million people fit the description of "workers with alternative arrangements," according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Next May, it will roll out a supplement to its Current Population Survey that will cover all kinds of "contingent" workers and alternative work arrangements.
Schools officials said that more than 100 schools being staffed by nonunion workers as alternative care for children would expand their hours as of Thursday.
Partly because they are better educated, partly because Koreans have a long tradition of gathering all manner of wild and pungent roots to add zing to their suppers, North Koreans have been more successful in eking out their rations with what relief workers call "alternative foods" than were the Chinese in the 1950s.
In emergency cases, unexpected closure of the main airways may occur, providing the workers with alternative airways is substantial.
The Task Force looked into various areas, including how to get more mothers into the workforce, incentives for workers, and alternative childcare arrangements.
The service is meant to offer hourly, and generally part-time workers an alternative to riskier payday loans and other lending products where debt compounds, making it even more difficult to recover from life's curveballs.
