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Hyman, Louis, 1977-
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Temporary employment -- United States -- History.
Flexible work arrangements -- United States.
Labor market -- United States -- History.
Job security -- United States -- History.
Labor -- United States -- History.
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Hyman, Louis, 1977-
Temporary employment -- United States -- History.
Flexible work arrangements -- United States.
Labor market -- United States -- History.
Job security -- United States -- History.
Labor -- United States -- History.
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Temp : how American
work
, American business, and the American dream became temporary / Louis Hyman.
by
Hyman, Louis, 1977-
Viking, 2018.
Call #:
331.25729 H996t
Subjects
Temporary employment
--
United
States
--
History.
Flexible
work
arrangements
--
United
States
.
Labor market
--
United
States
--
History.
Job security
--
United
States
--
History.
Labor
--
United
States
--
History.
ISBN:
9780735224070 (hc.)
Description:
388 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: How we all became temps
--
Making company men
--
Temporary women
--
Consulting men
--
Marginal men
--
Temporary business
--
Office automation and technology consulting
--
The fall of the American corporation
--
Rethinking the corporation
--
Office of the future, factory of the past
--
Restructuring the American dream
--
Permatemp
--
Flexible
labor in the digital age
--
The second industrious revolution.
Summary:
"Every working person in the
United
States
asks the same question, how secure is my job? For a generation, roughly from 1945 to 1970, business and government leaders embraced a vision of an American workforce rooted in stability. But over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the postwar institutions that insulated us from volatility--big unions, big corporations, powerful regulators--have been swept aside by a fervent belief in "the market." Temp tracks the surprising transformation of an ethos which favored long-term investment in
work
(and workers) to one promoting short-term returns. A series of deliberate decisions preceded the digital revolution and upended the longstanding understanding of what a corporation, or a factory, or a shop, was meant to do. Temp tells the story of the unmaking of American
work
through the experiences of those on the inside: consultants and executives, temps and office workers, line workers and migrant laborers. It begins in the sixties, with economists, consultants, business and policy leaders who began to shift the corporation from a provider of goods and services to one whose sole purpose was to maximize profit--an ideology that brought with it the risk-taking entrepreneur and the shareholder revolution and changed the very definition of a corporation. With Temp, Hyman explains one of the nation's most immediate crises. Uber are not the cause of insecurity and inequality in our country, and neither is the rest of the gig economy. The answer goes deeper than apps, further back than downsizing, and contests the most essential assumptions we have about how our businesses should
work
."--From publisher.
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