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Author : Erin Hatton
Release : 2011-01-07
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 825/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Temp Economy by : Erin Hatton
Download or read book The Temp Economy written by Erin Hatton. This book was released on 2011-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: groundwork for a new corporate ethos of ruthless cost cutting and mass layoffs. --
Author : Louis Hyman
Release : 2019-08-20
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 080/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Temp by : Louis Hyman
Download or read book Temp written by Louis Hyman. This book was released on 2019-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book Critics Shortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy"--how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the 50s and 60s upended the stability of the workplace and the lives of millions of working men and women in postwar America. Over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the institutions that insulated us from volatility have been swept aside by a fervent belief in the market. Now every working person in America today asks the same question: how secure is my job? In Temp, Louis Hyman explains how we got to this precarious position and traces the real origins of the gig economy: it was created not by accident, but by choice through a series of deliberate decisions by consultants and CEOs--long before the digital revolution. Uber is not the cause of insecurity and inequality in our country, and neither is the rest of the gig economy. The answer to our growing problems goes deeper than apps, further back than outsourcing and downsizing, and contests the most essential assumptions we have about how our businesses should work. As we make choices about the future, we need to understand our past.
Author : Erin Hatton
Release : 2011-01-07
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 819/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Temp Economy by : Erin Hatton
Download or read book The Temp Economy written by Erin Hatton. This book was released on 2011-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that work in America is not what it used to be. Layoffs, outsourcing, contingent work, disappearing career ladders—these are the new workplace realities for an increasing number of people. But why? In The Temp Economy, Erin Hatton takes one of the best-known icons of the new economy—the temp industry—and finds that it is more than just a symbol of this degradation of work. The temp industry itself played an active role in this decline—and not just for temps. Industry leaders started by inventing the "Kelly Girl," exploiting 1950s gender stereotypes to justify low wages, minimal benefits, and chronic job insecurity. But they did not stop with Kelly Girls. From selling human"business machines" in the 1970s to "permatemps" in the 1990s, the temp industry relentlessly portrayed workers as profit-busting liabilities that hurt companies' bottom lines even in boom times. These campaigns not only legitimized the widespread use of temps, they also laid the cultural groundwork for a new corporate ethos of ruthless cost cutting and mass layoffs. Succinct, highly readable, and drawn from a vast historical record of industry documents, The Temp Economy is a one-stop resource for anyone interested in the temp industry or the degradation of work in postwar America.
Author : Hilary Leichter
Release : 2020-03-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 74X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Temporary by : Hilary Leichter
Download or read book Temporary written by Hilary Leichter. This book was released on 2020-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
Author : David Van Arsdale
Release : 2016-07-11
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 511/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Poverty of Work by : David Van Arsdale
Download or read book The Poverty of Work written by David Van Arsdale. This book was released on 2016-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Poverty of Work, Van Arsdale goes inside the world of temping and discovers a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly. Furthermore, through a comprehensive historiography, he illustrates how employment agencies moved from England to North America during the colonial period, where they sold workers into many deprived employment statuses, including indentured servitude and slavery. Van Arsdale contends that had the history of employment agencies been better understood, they would have likely been abolished with slavery, or at the very least, more tightly controlled by government. Today, left largely unregulated, employment agencies are powerful corporations generating astonishing revenue by selling flexible, on-demand temporary workers. Unfortunately, this labor is trapping millions in a cycle of unemployment, despair, and poverty.
