Lashala Dorotte

Winner of the William G Bowen Prize Named a Triumph of 2018 by New York Times Book CriticsShortlisted for the 800 CEO READ Business Book AwardThe 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 AmericaOver 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 uestion how secure is my job In Temp 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 revolutionUber is not the cause of insecurity and ineuality in our country and neither is the rest of the gig econom...