Cheaper by the Hour

Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law

Robert A. Brooks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2012
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-0286-8 (ISBN)

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How attorneys' work is deprofessionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignments

Robert A. Brooks is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Criminal Justice at Worcester State University in Massachusetts.

Contents

Preface
1. Degraded and Insecure: The “New” Workforce
2. “Basically Interchangeable”: The Creation of the Temporary Lawyer
3. Life on the Concourse Level: Doing Document Review
4. Box Shopping in “Nike Town”: Struggles over Work
5. “Keeping Count of Every Freakin’ Minute”: Struggles over Time
6. “A Glorified Data Entry Person”: Struggles over Identity
7. “I Would Rather Grow in India”: The Emerging Legal Underclass
Appendix A: Document Review Project Summary
Appendix B: The Questionnaire
Appendix C: The Attorneys
References Index

Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-4399-0286-0 / 1439902860
ISBN-13	978-1-4399-0286-8 / 9781439902868
Zustand	Neuware