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Article: Moonlighting by women jumped to record highs. (laboring classes)
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1986
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Moonlighting by women jumped to record highs
According to a survey conducted in May 1985, multiple jobholders totaled 5.7 million, 5.4 percent of all employed workers. This was up from 4.9 percent in 1980 and was the highest level in more than 20 years. Data from the same survey confirm the continuance of two long-term trends: an increasing number of women among the moonlighters and a decline in the proportion of multiple jobholders with at least one job in agriculture.
These findings are from a special survey of work patterns of American workers.1 Multiple jobholders, as identified in this survey, are those employed persons who, during the survey ...