Knowledge Workers in the Information Society

Herausgeber: McKercher, Catherine

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Produktbeschreibung

Knowledge Workers in the Information Society addresses the changing nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media, information, and knowledge industries.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Media Studies
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9780739117811
• ISBN-10: 0739117815
• Artikelnr.: 23541630

Autorenporträt

Edited by Catherine McKercher - Contributions by Enda Brophy; Dean Colby; Wan-Wen Day; Greig de Peuter; Greg Downey; Rob Duffy; Colin T. Fones-Wolf; Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf; Gregor Gall; Maris L. Hayashi; Helen Johnson; Jyotsna Kapur; Deepa Kumar; Christo

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction. Theorizing Knowledge Labor and the Information
Society Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Labor Off the Air: The Hearst Corporation,
Cross Ownership and the Union Struggle for Media Access in San Francisco
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Writing Off Workers: The Decline of the U.S. and
Canadian Labor Beats Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Librarian and the Univac:
Automation and Labor at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair Chapter 5 Chapter 4.
A Libratariat? Labor, Technology, and Librarianship in the Information Age
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Marketing Creative Labor: Hollywood "Making of"
Documentary Features Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Commodification of Creativity:
Reskilling Computer Animation Labor in Taiwan Chapter 8 Chapter 7.
Glocalization in an Era of Globalization: Labor Relations in British
Provincial Newpapers Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Spanish TV Production Goes
Digital: Impact on Journalistic Routines, Workflow, and Newsroom
Organization Chapter 10 Chapter 9. No Information Age Utopia: Knowledge
Workers and Clients in the Social Service Sector Chapter 11 Chapter 10.
Outsourcing Knowledge Work: Labor Responds to the New International
Division of Labor Chapter 12 Chapter 11. "New" Economy/Old Labor:
Creativity, Flatness, and Other Neo-liberal Myths Chapter 13 Chapter 12.
Immaterial Labor, Precarity, and Recomposition Chapter 14 Chapter 13. New
Media as a New Mode of Production? Chapter 15 Chapter 14. High-Tech Workers
of the World, Unionize! A Case Study of WashTech's "New Model of Unionism"
Chapter 16 Chapter 15. Short-Circuited? The Communication of Labor
Struggles in China Chapter 17 Chapter 16. Women and Knowledge Work in the
Asia-Pacific: Complicating Technological Empowerment Chapter 18 Chapter 17.
Globalization and Workers' Power: The Struggle for Hegemony during the 1997
UPS Strike Chapter 19 Chapter 18. Labor Strife and Carnival Symbolism
Chapter 20 Chapter 19. Neo-liberalism and Its Impact in the
Telecommunications Industry: One Trad Unionist's Perspective