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

By M. Indergaard. 2014

296 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c7753cfc2a7221d093696d9c4d4dd7c8cae0b0a3

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa (2020, unknown): “More importantly, neoliberalism advocates a free market society where the individual freedom of workers is given more importance than the freedom of association and collective bargaining (Neff, 2012).”
Labour process theory and the gig economy (2018, background): “…scalable organizational model that exploits the features of a digital infrastructure to further a ‘radical responsibilization of the workforce’ on an individual level (Fleming, 2017; Neff, 2012), thus taking seriously the warnings of an incoming ‘uberization’ of all work (Fleming, 2017).”
Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, background): “…workers; these workers must be also be able to work in the unique environment of highgrowth ventures, which are often characterized by less structure and more onerous conditions and of employment than similar jobs within larger companies in order to quickly develop new products (Neff, 2012).”
This One Does Not Go Up to 11: The Quantified Self Movement as an Alternative Big Data Practice (2014, background): “This puts the QS movement in-line with the broader phenomenon within the technology industry of mixing labor with notions of creative worth and pleasure (Neff, 2012; Scholz, 2012).”
Algorithmic Labor and Information Asymmetries: A Case Study of Uber’s Drivers (2016, unknown): “Uber’s discourse of entrepreneurship may be tied to the legacy of a Silicon Valley environment where highly skilled and mobile workers could take on risks and trade-offs to be part of the start-up technology world (Neff, 2012, p. 24).”
Making the Intern Economy: Role and Career Challenges of the Music Industry Intern (2013, background): “The cultural industries have been among the major users of unpaid interns for some time (Frederick, 1997; Neff, 2012).”
Algorithmic Cultures : Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies (2016, background): “…and the work of "cultural intermediaries" that facilitate and legitimate the making of symbolic goods and meaning (Bourdieu 1993, Hesmondhalgh 2006, Neff 2012, Downey 2014) The link is made most explicitly by Morris (2015) in his discussion of "infomediaries," where he considers the work of…”