Könyv Cheaper by the Hour Robert A. Brooks

Cheaper by the Hour

Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law

Szerző: Robert A. Brooks
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-20 napon belül
10 719 Ft
Recent law school graduates often work as temporary attorneys, but law firm layoffs and downsizing h...

Információk a könyvről

Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2012
oldal
234
EAN
9781439902868
Enbook ID
05075964
Súly
318
Méretek
152 x 229 x 15

Teljes leírás

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 de-professionalization of skilled labour and considers how professionals relegated to temporary jobs feel diminished, degraded, or demeaned by work that is often tedious, repetitive, and well beneath their abilities. Brooks documents how firms break a lawyer's work into discreet components that require less skill to realize maximum profits. Moreover, he argues that information technology and efficiency demands

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