Represents the work of a cross-section of specialists in labour economics, industrial relations specialists, and social scientists who are engaged in research on the transformation of work in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.

"Working part-time: risks and opportunities" may prove particularly useful to sociologists, labour specialists, and relevant government agencies, organizations and unions.

Part 1 Overview: Part-Time Work in the North Atlantic Triangle - the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, Craig McKie
Part 2 Shaping and Re-Shaping Part-Time Work: Part-Timers - Living on Half-Rations, Sar A. Levitan and Elizabeth A. Conway
Government and Part-Time Work in Canada, Robert J. Drummond
Part-Time Work and the State in Britain, 1941-1987, Celia J. Briar
Part-Time Employment and Industrial Relations in Great Britain in the 1980s, David G. Blanchflower
Ambivalence or Apprehension? The Labour Movement and the Part-Time Worker in Canada, Norene Pupo and Ann Duffy. Part 3 Part-Time Work and the Lifecycle - Youth - Starting Out: Working Youths in the United States - the Implications of Part-Time Work, Robert A. Rothman
Do Part-Time Jobs Improve the Labour Market Chances of High School Graduates?, Graham S. Lowe and Harvey Krahn
Part-Time Work Among Young People in Britain", Angela M. Dale. Part 4 Women and the Part-Time Expedient: Women's Part-Time Work in Britain and in the United States, Shirley Dex
Part-Time Employment among Canadian Women - a Nexus between Capitalism and Patriarchy, Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo. Part 5 Older workers: Part-Time Work and the Older Worker in Canada, P. Lynn McDonald and Richard A. Wanner
Employment and Marginalism of Older Workers in the United States, Lonnie Golden
A Closer Look - Industrial and Occupational Cases
Two-Faces of Part-Time Work - Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs in US Service Industries, Chris Tilly
Part-Time and Occasional Teachers in Ontario's Elementary School System, Isik Uria Zeytinoglu
Gender and Career Trajectory - the Case of Part-Time Faculty, Katherina L.P. Lundy and Barbara D. Warme
The Crisis in Hospital Nursing and the Retreat to Part-Time Work, Jerry Patrick White. Part 6 What of the Future?: Part-Time Work - a Hope and a Peril, Hilda Kahne
Work Sharing and Job Sharing - Whose Priorities Prevail?, Vivienne Monty.