Title: Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies
Subtitle: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
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.
Subjects: Temporary employees, Self-employed, Employees, Independent contractors, Case studies, Information services industry, Part-time employment, Information technology, Electronic data processing consultants, Electronic data processing, Temporary employment, United states, officials and employees, Information services industry--employees, Information services industry--united states--employees--case studies, Information technology--employees, Information technology--employees--united states--case studies, Electronic data processing consultants--united states--case studies, Independent contractors--united states--case studies, Self-employed--united states--case studies, Temporary employees--united states--case studies, Part-time employment--united states--case studies, Information technology--united states--employees--case studies, Hd8039.i372 u63 2004, 331.2