Laboring of Communication

Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?

AvVincent Mosco,Catherine McKercher

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

The Laboring of Communication examines the transformation of work and of worker organizations in today's Information Society. The book focuses on how traditional trade unions and new worker associations growing out of social movements are coming together to address the crisis of organized labor. It concentrates on the creative responses of the technical and cultural workers in the mass media, telecommunications, and information technology industries.Concentrating on political economy, labor process, and feminist theory, it proceeds to offer several ways of thinking about communication workers and the nature of the society in which they work. Drawing on interviews and the documentary record, the book offers case studies of successful and unsuccessful efforts among both traditional and alternative worker organizations in the United States and Canada. It concludes by addressing the thorny issue of outsourcing, describing how global labor federations and nascent worker organizations in the developing world are coming together to develop creative solutions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-06-27
Mått:156 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:517 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Media Studies
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739118139

Utforska kategorier

Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Arbetsmarknaden inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Catherine McKercher is professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.Vincent Mosco is professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society at Queen's University.

Recensioner i media

In this textured empirical and theoretical examination of the workers in new media and information systems, Mosco and McKercher answer Castells's technology-focused network society with a critical sociological study of the conditions of work and the labor struggles in the making of the new global capitalist informational economy.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 Preface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 1 Introduction: New Responses to Bad Times for Organized LaborChapter 4 2 Theorizing Knowledge LaborChapter 5 3 Women and Work: Feminism and Political EconomyChapter 6 4 Convergence, Solidarity, and Labor Power: The Dream of One Big UnionChapter 7 5 Labor Convergence in the Information EconomyChapter 8 6 Beyond Business as Usual: Social Movement Unionism and Information WorkersChapter 9 7 Workers in a Changing Global Division of LaborChapter 10 References