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| Prologue | 1 | |
| Part 1 | Welcome to Free Agent Nation | |
| Chapter 1. | Bye, Bye, Organization Guy | 9 |
| Chapter 2. | How Many Are There? The Numbers and Nuances of Free Agency | 27 |
| Chapter 3. | How Did It Happen? The Four Ingredients of Free Agency | 47 |
| Part 2 | The Free Agent Way | |
| Chapter 4. | The New Work Ethic | 59 |
| Chapter 5. | The New Employment Contract | 85 |
| Chapter 6. | The New Time Clock | 103 |
| Part 3 | How (and Why) Free Agency Works | |
| Chapter 7. | Small Groups, Big Impact: Reinventing Togetherness in Free Agent Nation | 123 |
| Chapter 8. | Getting Horizontal: The Free Agent Org Chart and Operating System | 143 |
| Chapter 9. | The Free Agent Infrastructure | 161 |
| Chapter 10. | Matchmakers, Agents, and Coaches | 171 |
| Chapter 11. | Free Agent Families | 183 |
| Part 4 | Free Agent Woes | |
| Chapter 12. | Roadblocks on Free Agent Avenue: Health Insurance, Taxes, and Zoning | 199 |
| Chapter 13. | Temp Slaves, Permatemps, and the Rise of Self-Organized Labor | 213 |
| Part 5 | The Free Agent Future | |
| Chapter 14. | E-tirement: Free Agency and the New Old Age | 233 |
| Chapter 15. | School's Out: Free Agency and the Future of Education | 243 |
| Chapter 16. | Location, Location ... Vocation: Free Agency and the Future of Offices, Homes, and Real Estate | 261 |
| Chapter 17. | Putting the "I" in IPO: The Path Toward Free Agent Finance | 271 |
| Chapter 18. | A Chip Off the Old Voting Bloc: The New Politics of Free Agency | 287 |
| Chapter 19. | What's Left: Free Agency and the Future of Commerce, Careers, and Community | 301 |
| Epilogue | 313 | |
| The Official Free Agent Nation Resource Guide | 315 | |
| Notes | 347 | |
| Appendix | Results of the Free Agent Nation Online Census | 369 |
| Acknowledgments | 375 | |
| Index | 377 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Samuel azucena Azucena
reviewed Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself on July 01, 2009
Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself
This is another interesting book from Daniel Pink about the intersection of cultural trends, market forces, and an individual's place amidst them. Once upon a time, people found themselves easily within families, nations, corporations, or other "ideological apparatuses" to paraphrase Louis Althusser. Now, however, all the machines are broken and decentralized. Pink does a great job of putting a lot of this into focus.
On the other hand, most of what he writes here is patently obvious. Maybe it wasn't in 2001 when the book was originally published, but it definitely is now. The next edition should cut out most of the text in favor of the provocative and excellent chapters on Education and home schooling, the feasibility of a bond market for small businesses, and the very helpful appendices with practical advice on insurance, source language for contracts, working in a home office, etc.
WHY I READ THIS BOOK: see the entry on JOHNNY BUNKO.
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