Overview
- First major research endeavour to investigate gender and technical change in Taiwan and among female workers in Silicon Valley
- Examines entrepreneurs not as business owners or Asian capitalists, but focuses on the identities of the workers and their cultural and creative work
- Based on a wealth of original empirical research and first hand information
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)
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This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy.
Addressing the intersections between issues of gender, age, ethnicity and class, the author interviews startup founders, including many husband and wife teams, in order to understand the working and private lives of digital entrepreneurs in and from Taiwan who utilise Internet and mobile technologies, against a backdrop of the country’s political, social and economic history. It investigates contemporary debates about entrepreneurship as they are experienced by new generations of start-uppers who challenge existing social and cultural norms by becoming creative workers and embracing the precarity that exists in the volatile digital economy.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wing-Fai Leung is Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality
Book Subtitle: An East Asian Perspective
Authors: Wing-Fai Leung
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97523-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97522-1Published: 11 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07366-4Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97523-8Published: 27 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 226
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Gender Studies, Media Sociology, Digital/New Media, Entrepreneurship