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Fleming is a global temp worker, a modern-day nomad who jets off every year or so to a new locale, where he contracts out to companies desperate for engineers savvy in mobile communications. He is earning three to four times the salary he once made as a full-time employee of companies like Ericsson--which is why he was sounding merry on a recent morning, heading out of Seattle on a three-month contract to train engineers for his latest temp boss: Ericsson. "Now I go anywhere anybody pays me to go," he says. "It's a good...
...working lives. Donkin reinforces these assertions by describing how employment and management theory have evolved since the Stone Age. He is especially persuasive about the re-engineering trend that scythed through middle management in the 1980s and '90s, turning shareholder value into the new corporate mantra and "temp" agencies into the largest private employers in the U.S. In Donkin's view, we are now at a stage where there is more work than ever, the work ethic remains deeply embedded in the Western psyche and our identities continue to be framed by who employs us and how we earn...
Hoover's mistakes should be noted by those who take today's prosperity for granted. Today, Gore pledges to raise wages above market levels through a host of pro-union legislation aimed at temp agencies, low productivity nations and the working poor. What is more disturbing, Gore refuses to foreswear the option of raising taxes if there is a recession. When asked whether tax increases during a recession are wise, Bush economist Lawrence Lindsey's response was curt and ominous, "That's what Herbert Hoover...
...much do Mets fans really know about this year's National League champs? Mike Bordick is lucky to have a temp job, filling in at shortstop until Rey Ordonez is fully healed. Timo Perez first set foot in Shea Stadium less than two months ago. Rick Reed, who won 11 games for the Mets this season, is booed every time he gives up a run at Shea Stadium...
...with good reason. "Morale was horrible," says a former employee who got three days' notice of the move. "[The distribution staff] thought we were there to take their jobs." Upon her return, she found a memo warning staff members not to disclose that they had been used as temp labor...