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CONTINGENT LABOR (PERCEIVED BENEFITS (MORE MONEY, Contractors not only…
CONTINGENT LABOR
PERCEIVED BENEFITS
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Contractors not only hoped to make
more money, they wanted to be treated as
knowledgeable and enjoy the autonomy,
flexibility, and influence they believed they
deserved.
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- independence VS being an outsider
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- enhanced income VS hidden costs, and
- skills as expertise VS skills as a commodity
NEW LABOR MARKET
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JOB TENURE SHORTER, LABOR MARKETS MORE VOLATILE
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3 CONCLUSIONS
- a significant proportion of Americans are contingently employed
- this proportion has increased over the past decade
- technicians, professionals, and managers represent a larger portion of the contingent labor force than in the past
SHARED NARRATIVE
- The lament of an expert for
whom the tension between the ideal of
technical rationality and the political reality of organizational life has become a source
of simmering discontent
- an employer's action or an unanticipated event
that undermines job security leads the expert to act on his or her discontent
- The expert finally chooses to
escape the world of full-time employment
into the world of contingent work, which
promises a way of life more consistent with
the expert's worldview
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FREE AGENTS PERSPECTIVE
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return to craft-based models of employment centered on marketable skills that
release people from the confines of bureaucracy
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