Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy

By H. Molotch. 2005

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Subfields: Education

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1. G. D. Peuter
2. P. Thompson

Citations in the corpus

• Financialization and the workplace: extending and applying the disconnected capitalism thesis (2013, background): “Some independent contractors have relatively beneficial employment conditions and scientists, engineers, teachers, ICT specialists nurses are amongst the ranks of temporary employees (White et al 2004; Barley and Kunda 2004).”
• Creative Economy and Labor Precarity: A Contested Convergence (2011, background): “Although 1968 is key in this narrative, “employment revolt” (Barley & Kunda, 2004, p. 1) recurs as one response to a neoliberal climate in which the promise of job security is increasingly empty.”