224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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The dot-com boom of the late 1990s marked the coming of age of the much-heralded New Economy, an economic, technological, and social transformation that was decades in the making. A highly mobile, and in many cases highly compensated, workforce faces a multitude of new risks: Jobs are no longer secure nor insulated from global competition, employer-provided health benefits are drying up, and... Read more
1. Myths and Realities about High-Tech Work in the New Economy-A Personal View 2. The Lure of Risk: Surviving and Welcoming Uncertainty in the New Economy 3. The New Economy as History 4. No Deal or New Deal? Knowledge Workers in the Information Economy 5. The Second Adolescence of the New Economy: China's Engineers At Work 6. Globalization and Labor Resistance to Restructuring in Information Technology 7. Boom and Bust: Lessons from the Information Technology Workforce 8. Economic Development and the Labor Movement in the New Economy: Lessons from Silicon Valley 9. The New Media Union: What New Media Professionals Can Learn From Old Media Unions 10. What Works: Organizing Freelance Professionals in the New Economy
Biography
John Amman, Tris Carpenter, Gina Neff
