Book DescriptionHugo Whittier–failed poet and former kept man–is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking....

The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work--an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or pa...