In the last decades of the twentieth century attention was paid to a type of work that came to be called contingent work. This phrase referred to a wide variety of jobs and workers who didn't fit the more traditional industrial model. These jobs were more temporary, often part-time, and often filled by more entre¬preneurial and freelance workers. The category of contingent work includes temporary workers (often supplied by temporary employment agencies), inde¬pendent contractors and consultants, day laborers, and regular part-time or on-call workers. By 1995, such workers comprised almost 30 percent of the entire U.S. workforce and included almost 35 percent of all women workers.