TY - GEN AB - 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..... AU - Brooks, Robert Andrew. CN - ProQuest Ebook Central CN - KF299.T46 CY - Philadelphia : DA - 2011. ID - 435968 KW - Lawyers KW - Temporary employment LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=660530 N2 - 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..... PB - Temple University Press, PP - Philadelphia : PY - 2011. SN - 9781439902875 T1 - Cheaper by the hourtemporary lawyers and the deprofessionalization of the law / TI - Cheaper by the hourtemporary lawyers and the deprofessionalization of the law / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=660530 ER -