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NetSlaves : True Tales of Working the Web by Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin (1999, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcGraw-Hill Trade

ISBN-100071352430

ISBN-139780071352437

eBay Product ID (ePID)1023863

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNetslaves : True Tales of Working the Web

SubjectSocial Aspects / General, General

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

AuthorBill Lessard, Steve Baldwin

Subject AreaComputers, Business & Economics

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-687334

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal303.4/834

SynopsisA Library Journal Best Business Book for 1999 and featured in The New York Times and USA Today, the cult classic NetSlaves is now in paperback.Referring to the NetSlaves website on which this book was based, Cybercritic Ty Burr called it "a bitterly funny reminder that the multimedia industry is not populated by future Masters of the Universe but by the same psychotics, power trippers, and cubicle people as any other business...". In capturing their voices, this book creates a savage commentary on a cultural phenomenon that has remained hidden for too long..-- Featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Weekly, San Diego Union-Tribune, Computer World, NPR, CBS-Radio's "The Online Shopping Report", abcnews.com, TalkCity, The Industry Standard, Silicon Valleyreporter.com-- The authors have appeared on the Leher News Hour and in Crain's NY Business, Behind the industry propaganda and media hype are thousands of individuals trying--against the odds--to make a decent living while they keep everything going. In the dark corners of the Web, they labor: a freelancer owed thousands of dollars by a giant corporation; a tech supporter tethered to his tasks by cell phone and beeper 24 hours a day; a "permatemp" worker, kept by caste from health benefits and a decent wage even after years of full-time work; an "online editor" whose Max Perkins dreams dissolve in mind-numbing chat room censoring or HTML coding; a content provider, pink-slipped as soon as the Web-based start-up she works for starts making a profit. These, then, are the netslaves, and their stories are what has been missing from all the gleeful talk of the future of the Web. Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberHE7581.L47 2000