Description: 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.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Temp : the Real Story of What Happened to Your Salary, Benefits, and Job Security
Item Length: 8.4in.
Item Height: 0.8in.
Item Width: 5.5in.
Author: Louis Hyman
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Human Resources & Personnel Management, Careers / General, United States / 20th Century, Labor, Corporate & Business History
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
