Don't Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation Economy

by S. Craig Watkins

Book Overview

Offers a timely analysis of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of young people who cobble together the resources they need to pursue the lives and careers they want.

Young adults are coming of age at a time when work is temporary, underpaid, incommensurate with their education, or downright unsatisfying. Despite these challenges, media scholar S. Craig Watkins argues that this moment of precarity is rife with opportunities for innovation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807035300
• ISBN13: 9780807035306
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"