Temps Contributor(s): Krasas, Jackie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801436389 ISBN-13: 9780801436383 Publisher: ILR Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2000 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Careers - Job Hunting - Business & Economics | Labor - Business & Economics | Workplace Culture |
Dewey: 331.257 |
LCCN: 99088451 |
Age Level: 18-UP |
Grade Level: 13-UP |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.26" W x 9.42" L (0.89 lbs) 224 pages |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/10/2000 pg. 90 Library Journal 05/15/2000 pg. 104 Choice 12/01/2000 pg. 750 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Now firmly established as fixtures of the American workplace, temporary employees constitute a much-discussed but still poorly understood segment of the labor force. In this consciousness-raising book, Jackie Krasas Rogers explores the realities of temporary work from the points of view of workers, agencies, and clients, focusing especially on issues of race, gender, power, and identity. Rogers investigates the situations of two very different kinds of temporary worker--lawyers and those in clerical settings--and finds contrasts and similarities between the two groups' reasons for seeking temporary work, the type of tasks performed, and the value attached to that labor.The goals of temporary workers can be at odds with the interests of the agency and the client, the other players in the power triad of temping. Where clerical workers often see temporary employment as a stepping stone to a permanent job, many find upward mobility more illusory than real. Because temporary workers can be called in and let go at will or whim, and they have no established social relations in the workplace, they often work harder than permanent workers. Rogers, one of the authoritative scholars of temporary work in the United States, uses extensive archival and field data--including notes from her own work as an office temporary--to put a face on America's temporary workforce. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rogers, Jackie Krasas: - Jackie Krasas Rogers is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations with affiliations in sociology and women's studies at Penn State University. |
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