A host of services are springing up to serve the growing hordes of American part-timers. The Freelancers Union, founded in 1995, last year added a new system coordinating health insurance, dental, retirement plans, and other services to 263,000 members who are freelancers, part time or otherwise not employed by a traditional company.

Since 2000, SnagAJob has been helping hourly workers find part-time work at jobs ranging from language classes to administrative assistants and hotel workers. Working Not Working gives part-time creative workers a way to let companies know whether they are available for hire. FlexJobs caters specifically to people who don’t want to work in an office.

“The perfect job isn’t one job at all,” says Peter Harrison, SnagaJob’s chief executive officer. “It’s a mix. They’re saying, ‘I’d rather compose my perfect work week as a cocktail instead of drinking it straight.’”

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