With the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago is providing research, data, and analysis on nonstandard and contingent work for the North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAFFE). A network of 54 organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada, NAFFE is a leading advocate of improved pay and working conditions for contingent workers. This website is intended as a resource for researchers and organizations interested in contingent and nonstandard employment arrangements such as short-term and part-time work, work through temporary and staffing services, day labor, outsourcing, and independent contracting and subcontracting. (For a more detailed explanation of contingent work, click here.)

The site is divided into three main sections:

• Updates on the latest contingent work news, policy, research, and advocacy

• Data to be used for contingent work research and analysis. This data includes the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns tables.

• Research articles on contingent work. For every known article on contingent work, we provide a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article's findings, methods, and policy implications. We also provide a link to a downloadable version of the article, where possible.