Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labour costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown[...]
"Engineering Culture" is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book - which has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Hebrew - has been revised to bring it up to date. In "Engineering Culture", Gideon Kunda offe[...]