Most books on the subject of work focus on the increased amount of time Americans spend on the job. Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley address the counter-trend, examining the difficult path traversed by people who choose to work less than the standard...

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Contract work is more important than ever-for better or for worse, depending on one's perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming rarer, thereby erasing one of the major distinctions between "freelance work" and a "steady gig." Why hang on to a...

Selling Technology offers a look at high-tech markets from within, through the experience of salespeople, purchasing agents, and engineers who construct markets for emergent technologies through their daily engagement in sales interactions. Although sales occupations comprise 12 percent of the...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Barley, Stephen R. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Time, Technical Work, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- 2. Choosing to Work Less -- 3. A Professional and More -- 4. "Can You Do That?" Part·Time Work in Organizations -- 5. Going It Alone -- 6. "I'm...