The San Jose Mercury News published an article on faculty member Gina Neff’s book, “Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries.”

Columnist Chris O’Brien spoke with Neff who is on sabbatical and living in New York, where she is a fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology and Policy.

O’Brien writes, “In her research, Neff found that attending parties has become a necessary method of self-preservation in an industry and era where job security is close to zero. It’s part of a larger trend in which companies have shifted employment risk away from themselves and on to individuals who are told success is theirs if they just work hard and network enough.”