Behavioral and Social Mechanisms that Undermine Legality in the Workplace: Examining the Efficacy of Trade-Secrets Laws Among Knowledge Workers in Silicon Valley

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuval Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Trade Secrets

Temporality and Knowledge Work

2009 ◽  
pp. 425-439
Author(s):  
Joanna Shih
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Women Engineers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Labor Control ◽  
Asian Men

The hi-tech firms that predominate in Silicon Valley contain a large proportion of knowledge workers—employees with high levels of education and expertise. The region is subsequently a useful prism by which to explore the shift in the pace of work and ideologies of labor control. Engineers in Silicon Valley are a prototypical example of “knowledge workers;” they are valued for their ability to contribute to firms’ competitive advantage via their expertise and innovation. This chapter reports on fifty four semi-structured interviews of high-skilled, white and Asian men and women engineers who worked in the hi-tech industry of Silicon Valley, focusing on the issue of work temporality. Temporality has long been understood as central to the labor process, and as inextricably linked to the mode of production. Here, I highlight the problematic aspects of the shift from the routinized schedule of “clock time”, characterized by rigid temporal boundaries between work and home, and “project time,” characterized by an erratic and increasing pace of work that appears to be largely unfettered by boundaries between private and work time.

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Book Reviews
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Transit Migration

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley by Christian Zlolniski Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2006 ISBN 0520246438, 249 pp.The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture Ed. by Kostis Kourelis Athens: Gennadius Library, 2008 ISBN 978-960-86960-6-8, 104 pp.  Transit Migration: The Missing Link between Emigration and Settlement by Aspasia Papadopoulou-Kourkoula New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ISBN 0-230-55533-0, 177 pp.How Professors Think: Inside The Curious World of Academic Judgment, 1st Edition by Michele Lamont Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0674032668, 336 pp.

WHAT FASHION CAN LEARN FROM SILICON VALLEY

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 545-545
Author(s):  
Roland T. Rust ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Silicon Valley
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