Don’t Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation Economy By: S Craig Watkins [Audiobook]

Author: S. Craig Watkins
Narrated by: JD Jackson

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, and that young adults are leading the charge in turning that into an inventive and surprisingly sustainable future. As a result, society is expanding its understanding of who we think of as innovators and what qualifies as innovation, while wealth is spreading beyond traditional corridors of powerful tech companies, venture capitalism, and well-endowed universities.

Drawing on over 10 years of interviews and data, Watkins reveals the radical ways in which this community of ambitious young creatives is transforming businesses from the outside in. Diverse perspectives that are often ignored or silenced by major corporations are garnering public attention as women and people of color are redefining industries across the globe – all from their computer screens.

We meet people like Prince Harvey, a New York-based hip-hop artist who recorded his album entirely on an Apple showroom laptop; screenwriter, producer, and actor Issa Rae, who first used YouTube and Kickstarter to develop the web series that became her hit HBO show Insecure; the Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit organization created by product design student Veronika Scott in Detroit; and start-up companies like Qeyno Group in San Francisco and Juegos Rancheros in Austin that help make tech more accessible to people of color. Forward-thinking and dynamic, Don’t Knock the Hustle shows the diversity and complexity of a generation on the rise.

UNIQUE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING MILLENNIALS that looks beyond stereotypes about their relationships with tech and labor, based on two years of MacArthur Grant-funded research.

DIVERSE AUDIENCE APPEAL that will reach millennials, educators, people seeking to hire millennials, and scholars of technology, media, and labor. 

General Information
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 Title:                  Don't Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation Economy
 Author:                 S Craig Watkins
 Read By:                JD Jackson
 Copyright:              2019
 Audiobook Copyright:    2019
 Genre:                  Nonfiction
 Abridged:               No
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
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, and that young 
adults are leading the charge in turning that into an inventive and 
surprisingly sustainable future. As a result, society is expanding its 
understanding of who we think of as innovators and what qualifies as 
innovation, while wealth is spreading beyond traditional corridors of 
powerful tech companies, venture capitalism, and well-endowed universities.
Drawing on over 10 years of interviews and data, Watkins reveals the 
radical ways in which this community of ambitious young creatives is 
transforming businesses from the outside in. Diverse perspectives that 
are often ignored or silenced by major corporations are garnering public 
attention as women and people of color are redefining industries across 
the globe - all from their computer screens.
We meet people like Prince Harvey, a New York-based hip-hop artist who 
recorded his album entirely on an Apple showroom laptop; screenwriter, 
producer, and actor Issa Rae, who first used YouTube and Kickstarter 
to develop the web series that became her hit HBO show Insecure; the 
Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit organization created by product design 
student Veronika Scott in Detroit; and start-up companies like Qeyno 
Group in San Francisco and Juegos Rancheros in Austin that help make 
tech more accessible to people of color. Forward-thinking and dynamic, 
Dont Knock the Hustle shows the diversity and complexity of a generation 
on the rise.
UNIQUE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING MILLENNIALS that looks beyond stereotypes 
about their relationships with tech and labor, based on two years of 
MacArthur Grant-funded research.
DIVERSE AUDIENCE APPEAL that will reach millennials, educators, people 
seeking to hire millennials, and scholars of technology, media, and 
labor. 
2019 S. Craig Watkins (P)2019 Beacon Press

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