Dr. Chris Benner

Author

Chair, Community Development Graduate Group, Associate Professor Human and Community Development Department

Affiliation:

University of California - Davis

Email:

ccbenner@ucdavis.edu

Website:

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Dr. Chris Benner is a faculty members at the University of California - Davis in the Human and Community Development Department. He is author of Work in the New Economy (2002: Blackwell Press), a detailed examination of labor markets in Silicon Valley, and a number of other scholarly articles concerning urbanization processes and economic activities.

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