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Summary from article: The number of contingent, casual, irregular workers is rising both in the developed and developing world. In the United States the estimates sometimes place the number between twenty and thirty million workers. The U.S.
Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics in its most recent survey ofthe workforce before the recession found the numbers were holding steady at over four percent ofthe total workforce, with other alternative working relationships adding another one to two percent ofthe workforce. Add involuntary part-time workers, and the numbers soar. That is the global good news at least for some, that casualization is not increasing even more rapidly as some had predicted earlier.