The laboring of communication : will knowledge workers of the world unite?
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The laboring of communication : will knowledge workers of the world unite?
（Critical media studies）
Lexington Books, c2008
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-248) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1 Introduction: New Responses to Bad Times for Organized Labor Chapter 4 2 Theorizing Knowledge Labor Chapter 5 3 Women and Work: Feminism and Political Economy Chapter 6 4 Convergence, Solidarity, and Labor Power: The Dream of One Big Union Chapter 7 5 Labor Convergence in the Information Economy Chapter 8 6 Beyond Business as Usual: Social Movement Unionism and Information Workers Chapter 9 7 Workers in a Changing Global Division of Labor Chapter 10 References
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