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- Title
Project Time in Silicon Valley.
- Authors
Shih, Johanna
- Abstract
This article explores the pace of work for highly skilled workers who are employed in the high-tech industry of Silicon Valley. I link the temporal experiences of these workers to systems of domination at work, and to the particular characteristics of flexible specialization in the region. I ask four questions: How can the temporal rhythms of work be described? What factors shape these rhythms? Why do workers comply? How does this pace of work impact on other aspects of individuals' lives? I focus on the organization of work through project cycles, the de-linking of workers and organizations, and the ideology of individualism that constructs workers as entrepreneurs of their own careers as key factors that shape the erratic and quickened pace of work in Silicon Valley. I also show how this pace of work negatively affects other temporal spheres that individuals negotiate, most notably “bodily time” and the “interaction time” of social relationships.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HIGH technology; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; EMPLOYEES; SOCIOLOGY; LABOR
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2004, Vol 27, Issue 2, p223
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/B:QUAS.0000020694.53225.23