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Book Review: Venture Labor in Accounts
Thanks to William Finlay at the University of Georgia for his review in Accounts, the newsletter of the Economic Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. As a sociologist who went to graduate school in the late 1970s to study work and organizations— back then the term “economic sociology” was not in widespread use as a […]
Boom and Bust: Venture Labor Book Launch
Boom and Bust: Venture Labor Book Launch w/ INC@NYU from Media, Culture, Communication on Vimeo.
Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
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 […]