Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley
About this book
- Contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through a detailed examination of labor markets in Silicon Valley.
- Provides an original and insightful analysis of flexible labor including growing volatility in work demands and increasingly tenuous employment relations.
- Examines the increasingly important role of labor market intermediaries.
- Shows that some workers clearly thrive in this vibrant context, but many face high levels of insecurity admist growing inquality.
Reviews
“Benner’s work on the Silicon Valley’s labor markets provides valuable insights for policymakers and activists as well as scholars who care about the future of work and workers in the new economy.” ProfessorAnnaLee Saxenian, UC Berkeley
"Chris Benner, in his ground-breaking study of Work in the New Economy has done us an immense favour by offering an alternative way to conceptualize labour markets, a way which not only allows us to capture the dynamics within them, but also helps us move dialectically between structuralist approaches and those rooted in notions of individual agency." International Review of Social History