Newsworkers Unite - Labor, Convergence, and North American Newspapers

Over the last forty years, new technology and rapid concentration of ownership have caused fundamental changes in North American newspapers. Newsworkers' unions have struggled to protect their members and to reinvent themselves to keep up with the relentl

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By Catherine McKercher

Zusammenfassung

This study focuses on how The Newspaper Guild - the main union for reporters and editors - adopted a strategy of labour convergence, joining with other media workers in the large Communication Workers of America union. It also looks at the nationalism of Canadian newsworkers.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Catherine McKercher
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.08.2002
• EAN: 9780742515963
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1596-3
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Gewicht: 417 g
• Serien: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture; Critical Media Studies (Hardco; Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture; Critical Media Studies (Hardco; Critical Media Studies: Instit
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige, Branchen; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, North America, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Press & journalism, Trade Unions, North America (USA and Canada), News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions