Temp : how American work, American business, and the American dream became temporary / Louis Hyman.
Temp : how American work, American business, and the American dream became temporary / Louis Hyman.
Temp : how American work, American business, and the American dream became temporary / Louis Hyman.
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Publisher
New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
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G 2018/5406
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English
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Physical content
x, 388 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 --...
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Publisher
New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
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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--b...
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Temp : how American work, American business, and the American dream became temporary / Louis Hyman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/5406
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74VKV8MJOo5O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8MJOo5O
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ISBN
0735224072 hardcover
9780735224070 hardcover
DDC
331.25729
MMS ID
991024187596802626
