Everyone knows that work in America is not what it used to be. Layoffs, outsourcing, contingent work, disappearing career laddersOCothese are the new workplace realities for an increasing number of people. But why? Ina"The Temp Economy," Erin Hatton takes one of the best-known icons of the new economyOCothe temp industryOCoand finds that it is more than just a symbol of this degradation of work. The temp industry itself played an active role in this declineOCoand not just for temps. Industry leaders started by inventing the Kelly Girl, exploiting 1950s gender stereotypes to justify low...