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Author: Kevin Daniel Henson
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781566393867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the author's "participant-observation" research undertaken between 1988 and 1991, and on interviews with 35 others involved in temporary employment.
Author: Louis Hyman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0735224080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner 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.
Author: Maureen Martella
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1997-08
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 0788146157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the temporary work industry with a focus on the group dominating the temporary workforce -- women in administrative support clerical positions. It analyzes both quantitative and qualitative data collected from a survey of temporary workers in Philadelphia and its suburbs, follow-up in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of the respondents, and personal interviews with owners and managers of temp services. Areas examined include: reasons for temp work, relations with employment services, skills and training, and compensation and benefits. Contains tables and a sample questionnaire.
Author: Hilary Leichter
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 156689574X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
Author: Erin Hatton
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011-01-07
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1439900825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKgroundwork for a new corporate ethos of ruthless cost cutting and mass layoffs. --
Author: Caroline Arnold
Publisher: Charlesbridge Pub Incorporated
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781580892766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe award-winning author of Wiggle and Waggle explains how people and animals living in different parts of the world survive in hotter and colder climates using remarkable adaptive strategies and behaviors. Simultaneous.
Author: Bob Powers
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2009-07-07
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1429937939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJUST WHO DO YOU HAVE TO KILL TO GET HEALTH CARE AROUND HERE? In this book, you, the reader, get to be the main character in an exciting tale of blackmail and corporate espionage. You're an alcoholic temp with a dream of one day being a celebrated novelist. Unfortunately, you drink too much. When you wake up from a blackout, you discover you've been framed for murder. Someone wants you to take a permanent job, and he's ready to blackmail you into doing it. What will you do? Will you turn yourself over to the cops and write a memoir about being wrongly imprisoned? Will you go perm and enjoy the benefits of health care? Or will you escape into the sewers and live with the Mole People? The choice is yours! If you want to just surrender and go to jail, turn to page 6. If you want to hide by blending in with a group of 9/11 conspiracy theorists, turn to page 160. If you'd like to let Haviland Payne, CEO of SkoolKidz Uniformz, have her way with you, turn to page 73. If you want to see how the whole situation gets resolved on page 181, turn to page 181.
Author: Michelle Frances
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2019-01-29
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 149671251X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA successful career woman pays the ultimate price for having it all in this “outstanding psychological thriller” by the USA Today bestselling author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). With a dream career and a handsome screenwriter husband, TV producer Carrie is at the top of her game. Now with a baby on the way, she will truly have it all—she'll just need someone to fill in for her while she's on maternity leave. A young script editor with some missteps in her past, Emma is determined to make the most of the temporary position. She wants a life just like Carries . . . exactly like Carries. Carrie has given up more than anyone knows to get to the top of a ruthless business. But with Emma filling in for her at the office, her perfect life starts to unravel. Her bank account is inexplicably overdrawn, her husband seems strangely distant and colleagues are all too happy to take Emma's creative direction. Carrie finds herself dying to get back to work . . . until a letter left at her door changes everything.
Author: Vicki Smith
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010-08-20
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0801458072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTemporary agencies place approximately two and a half million people in jobs each day in the United States. Every year, about twelve million people use these placement agencies to find temporary work. Many Americans, even those who desire permanent jobs, decide to enter the labor market through the portal of temporary agencies. Compared with the post-World War II era, when it was a marginal labor practice, temporary employment is today an entrenched feature of jobs and labor markets. How have temporary employment relationships become so widespread and normalized? In The Good Temp, Vicki Smith and Esther B. Neuwirth provide some novel answers to this question. Their provocative analysis is based on an insider's view of the interior dynamics of a temporary help agency in Silicon Valley. It incorporates a historical perspective on the rise of the temporary help service industry. Smith and Neuwirth document how this powerful industry not only created a new market for temporary labor but also played a fundamental role in the erosion of the permanent employment model. They analyze how agencies themselves came to manufacture and market this reinvented product-the good temp, an employee who is effective and efficient, committed, and sometimes preferable to a permanent staff member. Joining extensive participant observation data with historical analysis, The Good Temp contains some surprising findings about temporary employment today and fills a significant gap in our understanding of this important labor relationship.
Author: Cathy Reilly
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 2011-10
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 1612330614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTemporary employment is on the rise. In uncertain economic times, many businesses view employing temps as a cost-effective strategy to both maximize productivity and foster flexibility. Being noticed and ultimately hired by clients in this increasingly competitive market requires staffing services and temps to perform at new levels of excellence. Working with staffing service firms and temps for over 20 years, Cathy A. Reilly has learned a thing or two about the staffing industry and the bottom line: what temporary employment success looks like to a client. No matter where you are in this three-sided working arrangement, The Temp Factor: The Complete Guide to Temporary Employment for Staffing Services, Clients, and Temps is the most comprehensive and innovative manual on temporary employment you will find. This up-to-date book is written for anyone working within the temporary employment industry, whether you are just starting out or possess years of experience. It provides readers with basic information to build upon, fresh perspectives, and better solutions to meet today's business staffing challenges. The Temp Factor is a valuable resource for temporary employees, clients and staffing services seeking to achieve distinction and a competitive edge.
