BOOK REVIEWS
CONTENTS Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries, byGinaNeff.ReviewbyHansWestlund...... 874 A Handbook of Transport Economics, edited by AndreDePalma,Robin´ Lindsey,EmileQuinet,andRogerVickerman.ReviewbyJiaYan...... 876 Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography, by Rob Sullivan. Review by Wen Lin ...... 879 Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States, by David Hackett Fischer. Review by Gordon F. Mulligan ...... 882 The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live, byBrianStone,Jr.ReviewbyNathanChan...... 884 Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Manage- ment for the 21st Century, by Abhas Jha, Robin Bloch, Jessica Lamond, etal.ReviewbyMarkStevens...... 885 The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form, byJiniKimWatson.ReviewbyDavidW.Edgington...... 887 Media Clusters: Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities, edited by Charlie Karlsson and Robert G. Picard. Review by Doreen Jakob...... 888 Second Cities: Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia, byJeromeI.Hodos.ReviewbyEricFure-Slocum...... 890 American Urban Form: A Representative History, by Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore. Review by Edward K. Muller ...... 891 Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada, by Kathleen M. Day and Stanley L. Winer. Reviews by Rafael Gomez ...... 893 Migration and Culture, edited by Robin Cohen and Gunvor Jonsson.´ ReviewbyRobertL.Boyd...... 895 Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City, edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer. Review byLakshmanYapa...... 897
Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries, by Gina Neff. 2012. Series: Acting with Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 195 + xiii. ISBN 978- 0-262-01748-0, $30.
The decline of the manufacturing-industrial society has meant enormous changes in all parts of society. Not only is the economy’s growth now based on other industries. Not only is this new growth often located in other regions than those that dominated the growth of the manufacturing economy. Social norms, values, and attitudes have also undergone massive changes. This latter circumstance is at the center of Gina Neff’s study of employees of Internet startups in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” during the late 1990s. The employees she studies are ones who chose the opportunity of insecure creativity instead of stable employment and work schedules.
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