| Author | : Glenna Matthews |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
What accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor unions declined in their influence? This book examines these questions from a fresh perspective: that provided by the history of women in Silicon Valley in the twentieth century.
| Author | : Glenna Matthews |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
| ISBN | : 9781503619425 |
What accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor unions declined in their influence? How are increasing waves of immigration and ethnic diversity changing the workplace in the Valley? Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream examines these questions from a fresh perspective: that provided by the history of women in Silicon Valley in the twentieth century. Silicon Valley is internationally renowned. It is less well known, however, that the Valley once contained the world's largest concentration of fruit-processing plants, set in a sea of fruit orchards. Despite the many differences between the fruit and electronics industries, one important thread connects them: the production workers have been preponderantly immigrant women. (In the early part of the twentieth century, the newcomers came primarily from southern Europe; in the latter part of the century, they came mostly from Asia and Latin America, especially Mexico.) The author examines both industries, both work forces, and the changing nature of the local power structure. Although she documents the many sources of vitality and ferment that have undergirded the region's economic might, she also demonstrates that its wealth has not been equally distributed.
| Author | : Glenna Matthews |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
What accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor unions declined in their influence? This book examines these questions from a fresh perspective: that provided by the history of women in Silicon Valley in the twentieth century.
| Author | : Martin Kenney |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780804737340 |
This text explores the factors that have made Silicon Valley such a fertile breeding ground for new technologies and new firms. It looks at how its pioneering achievements begana̧nd the forces that have propelled its unprecedented growth.
| Author | : J.A. English-Lueck |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2017-08-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1503602990 |
Since the initial publication of Cultures@SiliconValley fourteen years ago, much has changed in Silicon Valley. The corporate landscape of the Valley has shifted, with tech giants like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter vying for space with a halo of applications that connect people for work, play, romance, and education. Contingent labor has been catalyzed by ubiquitous access to the Internet on smartphones, enabling ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft and space-sharing apps like Airbnb. Entrepreneurs compete for people's attention and screen time. Alongside these changes, daily life for all but the highest echelon has been altered by new perceptions of scarcity, risk, and shortage. Established workers and those new to the workforce try to adjust. The second edition of Cultures@SiliconValley brings the story of technological saturation and global cultural diversity in this renowned hub of digital innovation up to the present. In this fully updated edition, J. A. English-Lueck provides readers with a host of new ethnographic stories, documenting the latest expansions of Silicon Valley to San Francisco and beyond. The book explores how changes in technology, especially as mobile phones make the Internet accessible everywhere, impact work, family, and community life. The inhabitants of Silicon Valley illustrate in microcosm the social and cultural identity of the future.
| Author | : Chong-Moon Lee |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780804740630 |
Looks at Silicon Valley's business environment, and what features have made it a fertile ground for start-up companies who develop radical and disruptive technologies.
| Author | : Deborah Perry Piscione |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2013-04-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 113732421X |
While the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up there, and the number of angel investors has skyrocketed. Today, 40 percent of all venture capital investments in the United States come from Silicon Valley firms, compared to 10 percent from New York. In Secrets of Silicon Valley, entrepreneur and media commentator Deborah Perry Piscione takes us inside this vibrant ecosystem where meritocracy rules the day. She explores Silicon Valley's exceptionally risk-tolerant culture, and why it thrives despite the many laws that make California one of the worst states in the union for business. Drawing on interviews with investors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, as well as a host of case studies from Google to Paypal, Piscione argues that Silicon Valley's unique culture is the best hope for the future of American prosperity and the global business community and offers lessons from the Valley to inspire reform in other communities and industries, from Washington, DC to Wall Street.
| Author | : Shenglin Chang |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780804752152 |
The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how residents (Taiwanese American high-tech engineer families) of the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes and landscapes reflect their personal identities—ways that enable them to make sense of "living life within two places at once."
| Author | : J.A. English-Lueck |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2010-09-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0804771588 |
This book tells the stories of the workers, the young people who will be future workers, and retired people who feel capitalism in their very bodies, as they work to define what it means to be healthy in America.
