摘要：A few years ago, the Globe and Mail ran a series of articles on the "alarming" growth of part time employment. There was nothing particularly striking about these articles, coming as they do on the heels of a number of studies into the unprecedented loss of manufacturing jobs in Canada's industrial heartland; the persistence of high rates of unemployment; the disappearance of what the defunct Economic Council of Canada termed "good jobs" offering regular full-time work schedules with decent rates of pay and working conditions; and the disproportionate growth of "bad jobs" that offer "non-standard" forms of employment and conditions of work such as part-time work schedules, short-term contracts, low rates of pay, few or no benefits, and economic insecurity.
