Robert A. Brooks

Cheaper by the Hour: Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781439902851
• ISBN-10: 1439902852
• Artikelnr.: 31184416

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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