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(Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries ) Author: Gina Neff May-2012
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Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology)
( In the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, employees of Int...)
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? Neff argues that this behavior was part of a broader shift in society in which economic risk shifted away from collective responsibility toward individual responsibility. In the new economy, risk and reward took the place of job loyalty, and the dot-com boom helped glorify risks. Company flexibility was gained at the expense of employee security. Through extensive interviews, Neff finds not the triumph of the entrepreneurial spirit but a mixture of motivations and strategies, informed variously by bravado, naïveté, and cold calculation. She connects these individual choices with larger social and economic structures, making it clear that understanding venture labor is of paramount importance for encouraging innovation and, even more important, for creating sustainable work environments that support workers.
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Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology) by Gina Neff (2015-01-30)
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Gina Neff
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Trained as an organizational sociologist, her research is at the intersection of concerns about work, technologies, communication and organizing. She is Associate Professor at the University of Washington. She was also Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy at Central European University.
She is also a faculty member at the Center for Media, Data and Society.
With Carrie Sturts Dossick at the University of Washington, she runs the Project on Communication Technology and Organizational Practices, a research group studying the roles of communication technology in the innovation of complex building design and construction. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and as of January 2015, Neff is currently at work on a three-year research project funded by Intel studying the impact of social media and consumer health technologies on the organization of primary health care.
She also co-edited. Neff holds a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from Columbia University, where she remains an external faculty affiliate of the Center on Organizational Innovation.
She has held appointments at Princeton University, New York University, Stanford University, University of California San Diego and University of California Los Los Angeles In addition to academic outlets, her research and writing have been featured in The New York Times, Slate, Christian Science Monitor, Fortune, The American Prospect, and The Nation.
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Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology)
( In the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, employees of Int...)
- (Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries ) Author: Gina Neff May-2012
- Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology) by Gina Neff (2015-01-30)
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Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology)
