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

by Gina Neff

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262527421
• ISBN13: 9780262527422
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher