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BOOK REVIEW: FREE AGENT NATION

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From: United Press International
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United Press International
11-13-2001
Book Review: Free Agent Nation

WASHINGTON, Nov 13, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- "Labor," Ambrose Bierce darkly noted, is "one of the processes by which A acquires property for B." But must that always be so? The "Organization Man" of the 1950s, grimly marching off to the corporation where he would work for the rest of his life is now the exception, not the rule. In recent years, technology has got cheaper, office supply stores and postal service centers have sprung up by the thousands, and easy access to the Internet has reached into ...

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