An easy way to think of contingent employment is to think of it as contract labor for a specific task – a free agent employee arrangement.  Not just for unskilled blue-collar labor, but for skilled professional white-collar labor like accountants, marketers, IT professionals, code writers, CEO’s and all professions.  In the new, post recession America of 2010, thanks to Tina Brown of the Daily Beast, this is also called gigonomics.  Contingent labor has been in use since tasks were first divided amongst early tribesmen.  There were stonecutters (defense contractors), herdsmen (ranchers), hunters (butchers), tanners (clothing and shoe manufacturers), farmers (okay, they are still called farmers), and medicine men (healthcare … [Read more...]