He is the author of two books: Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Princeton University Press, 2011) and Borrow: The American Way of Debt (Vintage, 2012), as well as the co-author of American Capitalism: A Reader (Simon and Schuster, 2014). His current research is on Temp: The Rise of Flexible Corporations and Temporary Work in Modern America, which examines the new organization of labor and capital in the postwar United States. The proposed paper is on the relationship between the LBJ administration and America’s largest temporary employment agency—Manpower Inc.—during the 1960s. The programs offered by Manpower, from youth employment to government-funded training programs, were seen as a way to redress the job crises of the long-term urban unemployed, but in a direction away from the Fordist world of permanent employment towards the flexible labor of today.