ABSTRACT
Every working day, the world’s biggest nongovernmental employer, the Swiss company Adecco, places 700,000 of its employees as “temporaries” with businesses all over the world-perhaps as many as 250,000 in the United States. Adecco is the industry giant, but it has only a small share of a totally splintered market. In the United States alone there are some seven thousand temp firms. Together they place some 2.5 million workers each day. And worldwide the figure is at least 8 million, if not 10 million. And 70 percent of all “temps” work full-time.
