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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Addresses the changing nature of work, worker, and their organizations in the media, information, and knowledge industries.
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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. McKercher and Mosco bring together scholars from numerous disciplines to examine knowledge workers from a genuinely global perspective.
Contents
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
