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Freelancing Expertise : Contract Professionals in the New Economy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Collection on Technology and Work SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801460388
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Freelancing ExpertiseDDC classification:
  • 658/.041
LOC classification:
  • HD8037.U5 -- O75 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Two Occupations with Divided Labor Markets -- 2. Assessing Options, Making Choices -- 3. Performing Expertise -- 4. Managing Marginality -- 5. Collegial Networking, Occupational Control -- 6. Extra-Organizational Careers -- 7. Work Relations Reconsidered -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Contractors Interviewed -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Contract work is more important than ever--for better or for worse, depending on one's perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming rarer, thereby erasing one of the major distinctions between "freelance.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Two Occupations with Divided Labor Markets -- 2. Assessing Options, Making Choices -- 3. Performing Expertise -- 4. Managing Marginality -- 5. Collegial Networking, Occupational Control -- 6. Extra-Organizational Careers -- 7. Work Relations Reconsidered -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Contractors Interviewed -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Contract work is more important than ever--for better or for worse, depending on one's perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming rarer, thereby erasing one of the major distinctions between "freelance.

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