@article{435968,
      recid = {435968},
      author = {Brooks, Robert Andrew.},
      title = {Cheaper by the hour temporary lawyers and the  deprofessionalization of the law / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Temple University Press,},
      address = {Philadelphia :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 216 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Recent law school graduates often work as temporary  attorneys, but law firm layoffs and downsizing have  strengthened the temporary attorney industry. Cheaper by  the Hour is the first book-length account of these  workers.Drawing from participant observation and  interviews, Robert A. Brooks provides a richly detailed  ethnographic account of freelance attorneys in Washington,  DC. He places their document review work in the larger  context of the deprofessionalization of skilled labor and  considers how professionals relegated to temporary jobs  feel diminished, degraded, or demeaned by work that  is.....},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/435968},
}