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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.Every working person in the United States asks the same question, how secure is my jobFor 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. Free Read Temp author Louis Hyman For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I loved Hyman s Debtor Nation and was really excited to read this book even though I didn t think I cared about the topic I was wrong about the topic, but right that Hyman is a brilliant must read historian Hyman brilliantly weaves together the history of the loss of stable work by examining McKinsey and Manhunters He s also the rare historian who covers all his bases He doesn t just focus on the typical sectors of labor think white men in hard hats He looks at house wives, black workers, I loved Hyman s Debtor Nation and was really excited to read this book even though I didn t think I cared about the topic I was wrong about the topic, but right that Hyman is a brilliant must read historian Hyman brilliantly weaves together the history of the loss of stable work by examining McKinsey and Manhunters He s also the rare historian who covers all his bases He doesn t just focus on the typical sectors of labo...Temp is the latest book about the changes in the American economy that have led to the strong growth in temporary or contingent jobs, often without benefits and only at a part time status while traditional jobs and traditional and stable workplaces have seemed to atrophy and a stagnation has come toworkers For the lower 90% of the workforce, real wages have stagnated for decades Any recent changes have come with a recognition that the nature of work and the types of jobs available to Temp is the latest book about the changes in the American economy that have led to the strong growth in temporary or contingent jobs, often without benefits and only at a part time status while traditional jobs and traditional and stable workplaces have seemed to atrophy and a stagnation has come toworkers For the lower 90% of the workforce, real wages have stagnated for decades Any recent changes have come with a recognition that the nature of work and the types of jobs available to most are very different from what they were from the end of WW2 until the 1960s.This is not the first book to address this set of economic developments ...This was a super well researched, well paced book But I m not really sure that I would recommend it unless you have a very strong desire to learn about the commodification of the American worker My dad spent his entire career as an executive at a temp agency I worked as a management consultant before law school much of this book talks about McKinsey and their management consulting ilk disrupting the employment structure of American business in the name of efficiency and I currently spend m This was a super well researched, well paced book But I m not really sure that I would recommend it unless you have a very strong desire to learn about the commodification of the American worker My dad spent his entire career as an executive at a temp agency I worked as a management consultant before law school much of this book talks about McKinsey...Every so often I run into an author who strings together a bunch of missing pieces that connect a whole bunch of stuff I ve been obsessing about for years and Temp is totally one of those books.By putting the postwar, risk adverse totalitarian union tolerating corporation in context and exploring the roots of the efforts to dismantle it in the wake of the demise of conglomerates in the late 60s 70s, Hyman made a lot of dynamics of the gig economyobvious The biggest of them is the rhetoric Every so often I run into an author who strings together a bunch of missing pieces that connect a whole bunch of stuff I ve been obsessing about for years and Temp is totally one of those books.By putting the postwar, risk adverse totalitarian union tolerating corporation in context and exploring the roots of the efforts to dismantle it in the wake of the demise of conglomerates in the late 60s 70s, Hyman made a lot of dynamics of the gig economyobvious The biggest of them is the rhetoric of, Flexible jobs for people who don t want to work full time being a hook to justify not paying benefits to as much of the workforce as they can manage.And then he goes and do...Where have all the jobs gone Hyman explains it clearly in this interesting but sometimes dry fusion of economic and social history I learned of this book from a NPR broadcast while driving through Arizona The subject matter and the author s command of it made me wanting to knowBasically the social experiment of the New Deal and the collaborative social contract of the 1950 s between corporations industries and labor fell victim to greed No longer was stability and a long term view th Where have all the jobs gone Hyman explains it clearly in this interesting but sometimes dry fusion of economic and social history I learned of this book from a NPR broadcast while driving through Arizona The subject matter and the author s command of it made me wanting to knowBasically the social experiment of the New Deal and the collaborative social contract of the 1950 s between corporations industries and labor fell victim to greed No longer was stability and a long term view the goal It was replaced by risk and a short term goal of the next financial quarter and the ascendancy of the shareholders Employees were not to be viewed as assets but costs unlike Japan.At the same time the consultancy craze took hold to advise managers and executives of how to maximize their growth and profits Armies of accountants and consultants besieged ...Don t talk to me about the future of work until you study the history of labor This is an exemplary history, complete with copious footnotes which I am a sucker for It follows the rise of temporary labor day laborers, office temps, shift workers, consultants, etc in the US closely tracking the rise of Manpower a temp agency and McKinsey a consultancy Hyman does a great job of weaving in issues of gender, race, and citizenship, with theconventional class lens of labor history Don t talk to me about the future of work until you study the history of labor This is an exemplary history, complete with copious footnotes which I am a sucker for It follows the rise of temporary labor day laborers, office temps, shift workers, consultants, etc in the US closely tracking the rise of Manpower a temp agency and McKinsey a consultancy Hyman does a great job of weaving in issues of gender, race, and citizenship, with theconventional class lens of labor history For example, Hyman highlights the predominance of immigrant hispanic women in manufacturing electronics often in their own kitchens and with the help of their family members of all ages and the lack of anti Uber like 86% men sentiment against Etsy 87% women , to show that the popular conception is that good, steady jobs are only owed to men and that temporary labor became...A valuable if frustrating and often dull entry into the study of our fresh hell Hyman is a credulous witness to the seemingly unstoppable tide of labor history, eager to reprint the front facing pronouncements of industry pioneers Manpower and McKinsey Importantly, hethan proves his central point, that workplace insecurity is not a new development of the gig economy, but an inevitable outcome of the last 50 years of corporate capitalism.Hyman s pollyanna denouement is telling though, A valuable if frustrating and often dull entry into the study of our fresh hell Hyman is a credulous witness to the seemingly unstoppable tide of labor history, eager to reprint the front facing pronouncements of industry pioneers Manpower and McKinsey Importantly, hethan proves his central point, that workplace insecurity is not a new development of the gig economy, but an inevitable outcome of the last 50 years of corporate capitalism.Hyman s pollyanna denouement is telling though, because for all of his gestures towards the exclusionary nature of America s once powerful labor unions all too briefly mentioning the labor struggles of African Americans, women and undocumented immigrants , he presents the logical outcomes of current trends as a new era of potential Organizing in this new atomize...A really comprehensive picture of how we got where we are with the gig economy, all of the ways that it has failed the individual to the benefit of the corporation and what a path forward could look like Have been recommending to everyone.The author gets a bitlost in this book on the mechanics of economic history compared to his other work The dichotomous focus on basically two major firms gets tiresome after awhile, especially when the current temp economy is pushed to just the last few chapters.

Temp
  • 24 June 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 400 pages
  • 0735224072
  • Louis Hyman
  • Temp