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

About the author

Catherine McKercher is associate professor of journalism and communication at Carleton University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine McKercher
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780742515963
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1596-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: 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
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches