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Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries

Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries

Neff, Gina

Paperback

Series: Acting with Technology

General ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262527421
ISBN13: 9780262527422
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 1 2015
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
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 Venture Labor, Gina Neff investigates choices like these made by high-tech workers in New York City's 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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