The limits of PD? Contingent Jobs and Work Reorganization

Abstract

In the U. S. jobs are becoming more and more temporary in nature, cutting the traditional bonds between employer and employee making more and more workers into freelancers-almost like a return to the not so romantic days of medieval Europe where each freelancer had to swear his allegiance to a lord and in exchange gain some form of temporary status. Now, with the support of networked computer systems and management policies of decentralization, the boundary between time and space of work, is fading.