Chapter 2. Despair Is Not a Strategy

Abstract

A project that has been four years in the making has had many sounding-boards, advisors, and well-wishers.We'd like to acknowledge first retired West Chester University colleague and our continuing friend, Karen Fitts, who not only was a full partner in the 2012 Watson Conference roundtable session that started the conversation guiding this book, but has been a progressive voice for justice for all in the workplace for every moment of her long career.Susan McLeod, Mike Palmquist, and Rich Rice of WAC Clearinghouse provided support for our aims from the very start, and then encouragement, smart advice, and organized guidance at every step of our work.Eileen Schell's early agreement and enthusiasm for the project, and her agreement to write the foreword, lent the book the strong voice of a premier scholar and advocate on the subject of contingent labor.Among the many scholars whose counsel moved the project forward, we would like to thank Debra Frank Dew, with whom we had many discussions that helped us sharpen the book's focus; and Jeff Sommers, who connected

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