Louis Hyman is an associate professor of history in Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is the author of Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary, Debtor Nation: The History of American in Red Ink and Borrow: The American Way of Debt.
Since 1970, temporary labor has become part of the everyday fabric of work across all segments of society, from the bottom to the top.