Cheaper by the hour [electronic resource] : temporary lawyers and the deprofessionalization of the law / Robert A. Brooks.
Brooks, Robert Andrew.
2011
KF299.T46 B76 2011eb
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Cheaper by the hour [electronic resource] : temporary lawyers and the deprofessionalization of the law / Robert A. Brooks.
Author
Brooks, Robert Andrew.
ISBN
9781439902875 (electronic book)
9781439902851
1439902852
Publication Details
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 216 p.)
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KF299.T46 B76 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.25/729
Summary
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.....
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Degraded and insecure : the "new" workforce
"Basically interchangeable" : the creation of the temporary lawyer
Life on the concourse level : doing document review
Box shopping in "Nike town" : struggles over work
"Keeping count of every freakin' minute" : struggles over time
"A glorified data entry person" : struggles over identity
"I would rather grow in India" : the emerging legal underclass.

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