We all know that paintings in the US isn't what it was once. Layoffs, outsourcing, contingent paintings, disappearing profession ladders-these are the hot office realities for a growing number of humans. yet why? In The Temp Economy, Erin Hatton takes one of many best-known icons of the recent economy-the temp industry-and reveals that it's greater than only a image of this degradation of labor. The temp itself performed an lively function during this decline-and not only for temps. leaders all started by way of inventing the "Kelly Girl," exploiting Nineteen Fifties gender stereotypes to justify low wages, minimum merits, and persistent activity lack of confidence. yet they didn't cease with Kelly ladies. From promoting human "business machines" within the Nineteen Seventies to "permatemps" within the Nineties, the temp relentlessly portrayed employees as profit-busting liabilities that harm businesses' backside traces even in growth occasions. those campaigns not just legitimized the common use of temps, in addition they laid the cultural basis for a brand new company ethos of ruthless price slicing and mass layoffs.
Succinct, hugely readable, and drawn from an unlimited old checklist of files, The Temp Economy is a one-stop source for an individual drawn to the temp or the degradation of labor in postwar the US.
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