Venture Labor
Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
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- Paperback
210 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2015
Summary
Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262527422 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262527421 |
| Author: | Gina Neff |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 210 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Acting with Technology |
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Gina Neff’s excellent Venture Labor is a must-read study for those who were there, and for those who care about our evolving workforce.
Gina Neff’s excellent Venture Labor is a must-read study for those who were there, and for those who care about our evolving workforce.
– Tom Watson * Forbes *About The Author
Gina Neff
Gina Neffis Professor of Technology & Society at the University of Oxford. She is coauthor of Self-Tracking and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press).
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