Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Seeing Silicon Valley : Life Inside a Fraying America, Paperback / softback Book

Seeing Silicon Valley : Life Inside a Fraying America Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Out of stock

Description

It’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley.

To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation.

But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by race, class, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways.

Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation, and while its billionaires live in compounds, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences, its service workers live in their cars. With arresting photography and intimate stories, Seeing Silicon Valley makes this hidden world visible.

Instead of young entrepreneurs striving for efficiency in minimalist corporate campuses, we see portraits of struggle—families displaced by an impossible real estate market, workers striving for a living wage, and communities harmed by environmental degradation.

If the fate of Silicon Valley is the fate of America—as so many of its boosters claim—then this book gives us an unvarnished look into the future.

Information

£20.00

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information