Knowledge Workers in the Information Society

Herausgeber: McKercher, Catherine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9780739117811
• ISBN-10: 0739117815
• Artikelnr.: 23541630

Autorenporträt

Catherine McKercher is associate 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.

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