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This is life in Free-lance Nation, where an estimated 1 in 4 workers are cobbling together a living outside the bounds of full-time employment--either through contract work, part-time jobs, temp assignments or some combination of the three. The recession has led to an increase in what Jared Bernstein, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, calls "involuntary entrepreneurs," people like Nieva-Woodgate, who would much prefer to have a full-time...
...retirements are helping Americans see through "the myth of lifetime employment," he says. And like it or not, transiency has become a part of our culture, as Big Business continues to develop labor plans that include more and more temps. Over the past decade, the number of temporary or contract workers has doubled to about 2 million, and these temps are doing as much manufacturing as clerical work...
...strict no-tights clause in my contract. If I wore 'em, they'd have to get me implants in certain areas. They didn't go for the expense, so they put me in a camel-hair coat and covered everything...
...have no. 909 of the 1,500 copies of the first edition of Eisner's "A Contract with God." It is a handsome hardback book. No dust jacket. And nowhere on the cover or title page or, even, in Will's introductory remarks does the term "graphic novel" appear. Since the publication of this seminal work, the term "graphic novel" has come into more widespread use than it enjoyed then in 1978, and in subsequent editions of the book, apparently insinuated itself onto the cover. But it wasn't there on the first edition; so the first appearance...
...TIME.comix responds: For the record, Will Eisner confirmed with TIME.comix that the words "A Graphic Novel" appeared on the cover of the paperback edition of "A Contract with God," but not the hardcover, which had no dust jacket. The paperback was published in 1978 simultaneously with the hardcover, says Eisner, with a larger print run. In fact Eisner acknowledges that the term "graphic novel" had been coined prior to his book. But, he says, "I had not known at the time that someone had used that term before." Nor does he take credit for creating the first graphic book. Eisner...