The dot-com boom of the late 1990s marked the coming of age of the much-heralded New Economy, an economic, technological, and social transformation that was decades in the making

Introduction, John Amman, Tris Carpenter, Gina Neff; Chapter 1 Myths and Realities about High-Tech Work in the New Economy¿A Personal View, Derek W. Schultz; Chapter 2 The Lure of Risk: Surviving and Welcoming Uncertainty in the New Economy, Gina Neff; Chapter 3 The New Economy as History, Simon Head; Chapter 4 No Deal or New Deal? Knowledge Workers in the Information Economy, Seán Ó Riain; Chapter 5 The Second Adolescence of the New Economy: Chinäs Engineers at Work, Andrew Ross; Chapter 6 Globalization and Labor Resistance to Restructuring in Information Technology, Immanuel Ness; Chapter 7 Boom and Bust: Lessons from the Information Technology Workforce, Danielle van Jaarsveld; Chapter 8 Economic Development and the Labor Movement in the New Economy Lessons from Silicon Valley, Chris Benner; Chapter 9 The New Media Union: What New Media Professionals Can Learn from Old Media Unions, John Amman; Chapter 10 What Works: Organizing Freelance Professionals in the New Economy, Tris Carpenter; conclusion Strategies and Structures for the New Economy, John Amman, Tris Carpenter, Gina Neff;