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Author Brooks, Robert Andrew.

Title Cheaper by the hour : temporary lawyers and the deprofessionalization of the law / Robert A. Brooks.

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.25729 B791c 2011    ---  Available
Description xv, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-212) and index.
Contents Degraded and insecure : the "new" workforce -- "Basically interchangeable" : the creation of the temporary lawyer -- Life on the concourse level : doing document review -- Box shopping in "Nike town" : struggles over work -- "Keeping count of every freakin' minute" : struggles over time -- "A glorified data entry person" : struggles over identity -- "I would rather grow in India" : the emerging legal underclass.
Subject Lawyers -- Employment -- United States.
Temporary employment -- United States.
ISBN 9781439902868 (pbk.)
1439902860 (pbk.)
9781439902851 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1439902852 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781439902875 (e-book)
1439902879 (e-book)

 
    
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