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9780735224070

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0735224072
ISBN-13
9780735224070
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038431170

Product Key Features

Book Title
Temp : How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Resources & Personnel Management, Careers / General, United States / 20th Century, Labor, Corporate & Business History
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Business & Economics, History
Author
Louis Hyman
Format
Hardcover

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1.3 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Trade
LCCN
2018-025161
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A revealing study of the "gig economy," which, though it seems new, has long antecedents...[and] a quietly hopeful spin on an economic process that has proved tremendously dislocating for a generation and more of workers." -- Kirkus Reviews "How employers learned to prefer disposable workers without rights for nearly everyjob could be the subtitle of this stark yet engaging tale. Louis Hyman names the culprits, too: entrepreneurs and consultants who taught corporations to chuck obligations to the people on whom they depend. Companies were able to experiment freely on those left out of the New Deal social contract, turning the vulnerability of some into today's insecurity and anxiety for all. If the sunny ending sounds like whistling in the graveyard, no matter: this book is a stimulus to start imagining a sustainable economic order for our time." --Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains "Countering common wisdom, Louis Hyman shows that the norm of steady work has been eroded for decades not by the workings of an abstract market but through the systematic efforts of management consultants and temporary work agencies, spreading the gospel of flexibility and cheap labor. Like it or hate it, the gig economy has a history that Hyman masterfully reveals." --Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World "Louis Hyman weaves a tapestry of unlikely people and events: an orphaned electrician working nights, braceros and divorcées, McKinsey consultants stalking the hallways, undocumented women assembling electronics in kitchens, virtual receptionists, dexterous robots, disgruntled saboteurs, and INS raids. And yet Temp is about our future. This is a crucial book for our time--it is insightful, surprising, and deeply humane." --Kevin Birmingham, author of The Most Dangerous Book " Temp is a riveting read for anyone grappling with the contradictions and inequities of contemporary capitalism. Louis Hyman simultaneously shows us the decades-long evolution of the present epidemic of job insecurity, takes a clear-eyed look at the exploitation of women and workers of color, and outlines a positive vision of how Americans can prosper in both work and life." -- Anne-Marie Slaughter , president and CEO of New America
Dewey Decimal
331.25/729
Synopsis
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. 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.
LC Classification Number
HD5854.2.U6H96 2018

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  • by us-meloo
    15 Jul, 2020

    The real jobs report on American History for non-economists

    The transformation/degradation of worklife security is the big issue of our times. I'm proud and happy that the author has joined Cornell faculty. I joined the NYSSILR Alumni Book Club with this purchase. Easy reading and sensible. A magnum opus for non-economists. Before finishing this book, I returned to eBay and bought another book by Prof. Hyman on the economic history he excels at describing and explaining: BORROW. I'm looking forward to it.

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