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Chargement... Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporarypar Louis Hyman
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Pretty much what the title sounds like: a relatively conventional history of American employers moving from reliance on permanent and usually long-term employees to a mix of contractors and temps. If you are looking for a reference on US labor history of the last 150 years, this is a pretty thorough and solid title. I was hoping there would be more on how the less secure labor force might fight back, but that's just me and the author didn't promise that. One of the best books I’ve read all year. Hyman tells several interlocking stories about how work has gotten so unstable, focusing on the US but with tendrils all over. One story is about the rise of consulting and how well-paid Harvard men decided that short-term jobs were good, for them and then for others. Another is about the rise of temporary labor including pink-collar and other jobs, especially in Silicon Valley. When you think about high-tech production, he says, you should really think about low-paid women who might well have been pieceworkers, putting together devices in small factories. Relatedly, there’s the story of immigration to supply demand for workers in agriculture, construction, and other physically demanding jobs, first as legal immigration and then formally illegal (though of course the employers were never punished). Together, these stories explain why work no longer works the way the American dream supposedly taught us to believe it did. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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 Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Recommended read if you have an interest in how our economy got to its present state. It's a tad depressing (especially if, like me, you've done the temp-to-hire thing and contemplate the dearth of "good jobs" available for skillset). ( )