Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies
Subtitle: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780691119434
Subjects: Labour economics; Working patterns & practices; Management Science; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Case studies; Politics / Current Events; Business & Economics; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Business/Economics; Labor; Information services industry; Business & Economics / Labor; Economics; Sociology; Politics - Current Events; United States; Electronic data processing consultants; Employees; Information technology
First sentence: Clothed in a light blue T-shirt and chinos, Kent Cox revealed nothing to suggest that he was in the vanguard of an employment revolt that was spreading quietly across America's industrial landscape.
Description: "Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. Based on a year of field work in three staffing agencies, life histories with over seventy contractors and studies of workers in some of America's best known firms, the book dismantles the myths of temporary employment and offers instead, a grounded description of how contracting works."--BOOK JACKET.