Chris Benner: Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley (2002)

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. It provides an original and insightful analysis of flexible labor including growing volatility in work demands and increasingly tenuous employment relations.
* 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.

Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, 2002
ISBN 0631232508, 9780631232506
293 pages

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Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County, flexible labor markets, information technology, electronic manufacturing services, systems administrators, professional employer organizations, social networks, communities of practice, stock options, information economy, Hewlett Packard, Graphic Artists Guild, Mike Curran, USENIX, outsourcing, World Wide Web, AFL-CIO, JTPA, Solectron

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Julian Brown: Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer (2000)

Taking readers to the cutting edge of physics, mathematics, and computer science, Julian Brown tells the dramatic story of the groundbreaking efforts to create a fundamentally new kind of computer that would be astronomically more powerful than today’s machines. In 1998, a team of researchers announced they had produced the world’s first quantum computer in a cup of chloroform. In fascinating, fully accessible detail, Brown explains the ideas that led up to this accomplishment and explores the mind-stretching implications of this leap into the bizarre world of quantum physics. The Quest for the Quantum Computer is a riveting look at what promises to be one of the most important scientific and technological ideas of the twenty-first century.

Publisher Simon & Schuster, 2000
ISBN 0-684-87004-5, 978-0-6848-7004-5
Length 396 pages

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The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters and Activists (2006)

Changes in the media landscape present new challenges for scholars interested in the relationship between the mass media and civil society. Notably, the explosion of the Internet in advanced industrial democracies and its more limited introduction in other types of regimes has provided new pathways for communication.

This volume explores the nature of the Internet’s impact on civil society, addressing the following central questions:
· Is the Internet qualitatively different from the more traditional forms of the media?
· Has the Internet demonstrated real potential to improve civil society through a wider provision of information, an enhancement of communication between government and citizen or via better state transparency?
· Alternatively, does the Internet pose a threat to the coherence of civil society as people are encouraged to abandon shared media experiences and pursue narrow interests?
· In authoritarian states, does the Internet function as a beacon for free speech or another tool for propaganda?

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the Internet and civil society.

Editors Sarah Oates, Diana Marie Owen, Rachel Kay Gibson
Publisher Routledge, 2006
ISBN 041534784X, 9780415347846
228 pages

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Countryside Alliance, mass media, Yabloko, NGOs, Pew Research Center, social capital, Hizbollah, Ukraine Without Kuchma, United Russia, Cumbria, However, Ukrainska Pravda, cyber-terrorism, civil society, Republican Sinn Fein, Ukrainian, GreenNet, Ulster Loyalist, Russian parties, 2004 presidential election

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