{"product_id":"temp-the-real-story-of-what-happened-to-your-salary-benefits-and-job-security-paperback","title":"Temp: The Real Story of What Happened to Your Salary, Benefits, and Job Security - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouis Hyman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the William G. Bowen Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a \"Triumph\" of 2018 by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Critics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver 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 \u003ci\u003eTemp, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUber 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis Hyman is an associate professor of economic history at the Industrial Labor Relations School of Cornell University, as well as the director of ILR's Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. A former Fulbright scholar and McKinsey consultant, Hyman received his PhD in American history from Harvard University. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Bloomberg, Pacific Standard, Wilson Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDebtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBorrow: The American Way of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 20, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52141935198439,"sku":"9780735224087","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8329\/8279\/files\/aec4b1a066c5473e9faed753a5197f8f.webp?v=1780317481","url":"https:\/\/skinnonsmooth.myshopify.com\/products\/temp-the-real-story-of-what-happened-to-your-salary-benefits-and-job-security-paperback","provider":"SkinnOnSmooth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}