Canaries in the Code Mine : Precarity and the Future of Tech Work / Max Papadantonakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Papadantonakis, Max, 1989- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

High technology industries--Employees--Supply and demand--United States.

High technology industries.

High technology industries--Employees--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.

Computer industry--Employees--Supply and demand--United States.

Computer industry.

Computer industry--Employees--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.

Discrimination in employment--United States.

Discrimination in employment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Temple University Press 2025

Summary:

"This book shows how people who go into professional careers in technology, such as programming and software development, have found the job security they sought short-lived. Their difficulty finding and keeping work is exacerbated if they do not fit the stereotype of the ideal tech worker: young, male, and white"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Tech talent and the ideal worker

Digital elites

Pretty colors and cleaning up

"Excuse me! Do you work here?"

"Too old" to code

Tech workers unite!

Conclusion

Methodological appendix

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439925799

1439925798