[PDF.96fe] Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology)

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

[PDF.fs78] Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology)

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 | #1846441 in Books |  2015-01-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.44 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 210 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A brilliant analysis of the tech industry's risk culture|By danah boyd|The tech industry seems so glamorous. In both the 1990s dot-com bubble the Web2.0/big data ecosystem, there are tales of entrepreneurs striking it big, becoming millionaires off of a seemingly simple idea. The rhetoric is that it's a big old meritocracy, rewarding those who work hard and are brilliant. Yet| ||In her rich fieldwork-based report from Silicon Alley, Gina Neff splendidly captures the bravado and the anguish of the late 1990s pioneers who placed risky bets on controlling their future, only to discover that they were simply preparing the way for a futur

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 ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology)   |  Gina Neff. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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