Knowledge workers in the information society / edited by Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco
- Bib ID:
- 4279319
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Lanham : Lexington Books, c2007
- xxiv, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780739117804
- 0739117807
- Series:
- Critical media studies.
- Summary:
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"Knowledge Workers in the Information Society addresses the changing nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media, information, and knowledge industries. These knowledge workers include journalists, broadcasters, librarians, filmmakers and animators, government workers, and employees in the telecommunications and high-tech sectors. Technological change has become relentless. Corporate concentration has created new pressures to rationalize work and eliminate stages in the labor process. Globalization and advances in telecommunications have made real the prospect that knowledge work will follow manufacturing labor to parts of the world with low wages, poor working conditions, and little unionization. Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco bring together scholars from numerous disciplines to examine knowledge workers from a genuinely global perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Theorizing Knowledge Labor and the Information Society vii / Catherine McKercher and VincentMosco
- 1. Labor Off the Air:The Hearst Corporation, Cross Ownership and the Union Struggle for Media Access in San Francisco / Colin T. Fones-Wolfand and Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf
- 2. Writing off Workers: The Decline of the U.S. and Canadian Labor Beats / Christopher R. Martin
- 3. The Librarian and the Univac: Automation and Labor at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair / Greg Downey
- 4. A Libratariat? Labor, Technology, and Librarianship in the Information Age / James F. Tracy and Maris L. Hayashi
- 5. Marketing Creative Labor: Hollywood "Making of" Documentary Features / John L. Sullivan
- 6. Commodification of Creativity: Reskilling Computer Animation Labor in Taiwan / Wan-Wen Day
- 7. Glocalization in an Era of Globalization: Labor Relations in British Provincial Newspapers / Gregor Gall
- 8. Spanish TV Production Goes Digital: Impact on Journalistic Routines, Workflow, and Newsroom Organization / Pere Masip and Iosep lluis Mica
- 9. No Information Age Utopia: Knowledge Workers and Clients in the Social Service Sector / Yanda Rideout
- 10. Outsourcing Knowledge Work: Labor Responds to the New International Division of Labor / Vincent Mosco and Andrew Stevens
- 11. "New" Economy/Old Labor: Creativity, Flatness, and Other Neo-liberal Myths / Iyotsna Kapur
- 12. Immaterial Labor, Precarity, and Recomposition / Enda Brophy and Greig de Peuter
- 13. New Media as a New Mode of Production? / Dean Colby
- 14. High-Tech Workers of the World, Unionize! A Case Study of WashTech's "New Model of Unionism" / Michelle Rodino-Colocino
- 15. Short-Circuited? The Communication of Labor Struggles in China / Yuezhi Zhao and Rob Duffy
- 16. Women and Knowledge Work in the Asia-Pacific: Complicating Technological Empowerment / Lisa McLaughlin and Helen Johnson
- 17. Globalization and Workers' Power: The Struggle for Hegemony during the 1997 UPS Strike / Deepa Kumar
- 18. Labor Strife and Carnival Symbolism / Ian Nagy
- 19. Neo-liberalism and Its Impact in the Telecommunications Industry: One Trade Unionist's Perspective / Sid Shniad.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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