Venture Labor is CITASA’S 2013 Book of the Year
(This generous write-up from my home department website is about the Best Book Award given to Venture Labor won.) Professor Gina Neff’s book titled “Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries” was selected as the 2013 Best Book Award by the American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA). The […]
Book Review: Venture Labor in American Journal of Sociology
Thank you to Vicki Smith for the scholarly review of Venture Labor in the American Journal of Sociology. A great deal has been written about employment risk in the 21st century. Many agree that institutional bases of employment are shifting, jobs and careers have become more tenuous, and risks associated with employment increasingly have been […]
Book Review: Venture Labor in Forbes
Thank you Tom Watson and Forbes for reviewing Venture Labor. They called it “Silicon Alley,” a clumsy play on words meant to evoke an East Coast urban version of the California place where microchips made fortunes grow and digital devices work. It was a marketing play really, designed to lure public funding and convince established business to […]