Gurus hired guns and warm bodies itinerant experts in a knowledge economy knowledge economy nature of work this book review is available in industrial labor relations review http . Gurus hired guns and warm bodies tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work the managers who employ them the permanent employees who work beside them and the staffing agencies who broker deals based on a year of field work in three staffing agencies life histories with over seventy contractors and . Gurus hired guns and warm bodies itinerant experts in a knowledge economyby stephen r barley and gideon kunda princeton nj princeton university press 2004. Request pdf on sep 1 2005 jeremy reynolds published gurus hired guns and warm bodies itinerant experts in a knowledge economy by stephen r barley and gideon kundagurus hired guns and . In this journal journal home browse journal current issue