Laboring of Communication - Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?

Informationen zum Autor Vincent Mosco, Catherine McKercher Klappentext This book addresses the changing nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media, information, and knowledge industries. It begins with a concise analysis of the meaning of knowledge work and of an information society. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the changing nature of work! workers! and their organizations in the media! information! and knowledge industries. It begins with a concise analysis of the meaning of knowledge work and of an information society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Catherine McKercher, Vincent Mosco, Vincent Mckercher Mosco, Mosco Vincent
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2008
• EAN: 9780739118139
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1813-9
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Critical Media Studies (Hardco; Critical Media Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Industrial relations, health & safety, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy, Industrial arbitration and negotiation