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Speaker Event Hosted by Professor Stephen R. Barley - "Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies"

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Date:  Thursday 11 October 2007 Time:  From 7.15 pm for 7.30 pm start Venue:  East India Club, 16 St. James’ Square, London SW1Y 4LH. (Green Park or Piccadilly Tube) Price:  £26.00 Members. £27.50 Non Members Wine and canapés will be served. (Please note there is a strict dress code) Deadline:

We are delighted that Professor Barley has agreed to speak to our members. He is the resident Stanford study abroad docent at Oxford for the Fall and Winter quarters. (Stephen R. Barley Centre for Work, Technology and Organization Stanford University).   Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labour costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown exponentially, especially in high-technology areas. Yet, almost nothing is known about technical contracting or about the people who do it. Drawing on his ethnography of contract labour markets, Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy (co-authored with Gideon Kunda and published by Princeton University Press), Professor Barley will discuss what life as a contractor is like and how contractor’s conceptualize and manage their human and social capital. The study provides a window onto the changing nature of work and employment.   BOOKING   £26.00 Members. £27.50 Non Members Wine and canapés will be served. (Please note there is a strict dress code)   NOTE: Due to postal strike, please register using the online option. If you do need to pay by cheque, please email Lesley Hunt at lesley.hunt@stanfordalumni.org.uk and she will provide you with further information.   To sign up, please click on the following link: > http://www.eventbrite.com/event/74696419 < (A new page will open up)   OR Send your cheque, made payable to: The Stanford Club of Great Britain Box 87 No 2 Old Brompton Road London SW7 3DQ Please give your full name/s, degree/year and contact information. Guests are welcome.     Please contact our Events/Membership Director - lesley.hunt@stanfordalumni.org.uk, for information about your membership status, signing up, or any other queries.

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