Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting With Technology) - Hardcover

Neff, Gina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262017482 ISBN 13: 9780262017480

Verlag: MIT Press, 2012

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In the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, employees of Internet startups took risks--left well-paying jobs for the chance of striking it rich through stock options (only to end up unemployed a year later), relocated to areas that were epicenters of a booming industry (that shortly went bust), chose the opportunity to be creative over the stability of a set schedule. In Venture Labor, Gina Neff investigates choices like these made by high-tech workers in New York Citys Silicon Alley in the 1990s. Why did these workers exhibit entrepreneurial behavior in their jobs--investing time, energy, and other personal resources that Neff terms venture labor--when they themselves were employees and not entrepreneurs?

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Gina Neff is Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Washington and the School of Public Policy at Central European University. She is the coeditor of the book Surviving the New Economy.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262017482
• ISBN 13: 9780262017480
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
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