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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.

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Temp The Real Story of What Happened to Your

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      Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
      Published 20 August 2019
      ISBN-13 9780735224087
      978-0735224087
      ISBN-10 0735224080
      Also in:
      Industrial relations, occupational health

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

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