Talk:Contingent work

casual work

I am considering moving this article to casual work. Although I've had major input into this article, with hindsight I think that the term casual work is more widespread, and arguably more NPOV than contingent work - since casual work is more likely to be used by employment agencies and in classified listings - and the meaning of the two phrases is very similar.

That said - casual work perhaps isn't quite the same thing as contingent work. In particular, part time jobs are often considered contingent work, but aren't necessarily casual. And full time jobs in organisations that have an unusually high staff turnover might be considered contingent work, even if they're not casual.

Also - the term contingent work seems to be used more commonly by those who consider it a social issue. Although such an opinion wouldn't be NPOV in itself, I still believe that it's legitimate to have an encyclopædia article covering those viewpoints. And I feel as though it would be more appropriate in an article about contingent work than in one about casual work.

At the moment, I don't think there's enough scope to justify casual work and contingent work being two separate articles, though that might change in the future. If there is scope to have articles on both subjects, they should definitely link to each other - and if there isn't, then one should redirect to the other.

So I'm undecided, and would like opinions. Thanks. Squashy 23:59, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

merge precarity here

Someone created the "precarity" article, which apparently has now entered the English language. It comes from the French "précarité", and for all I can see, is the exact synonym of contingent work and other McJobs. So maybe we should simplify things, as WIkipedia is not a dictionnary, and have arguments and analyzes unified in the same article, shouldn't we? Lapaz 23:14, 5 May 2006 (UTC)