Knowledge Workers in the Information Society

by McKercher, Catherine; Brophy, Enda; Colby, Dean; Day, Wan-Wen; Peuter, Greig de; Downey, Greg; Duffy, Rob; Fones-Wolf, Colin T.; Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A.; Gall, Gregor; Hayashi, Maris L.; Johnson, Helen; Kapur, Jyotsna; Kumar, Deepa; Martin, Christopher R

• ISBN13: 9780739117804
• ISBN10: 0739117807
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-21
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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

Author Biography

Catherine McKercher is associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Theorizing Knowledge Labor and the Information Society	p. vii
Labor Off the Air: The Hearst Corporation, Cross Ownership and the Union Struggle for Media Access in San Francisco	p. 1
Writing off Workers: The Decline of the U.S. and Canadian Labor Beats	p. 19
The Librarian and the Univac: Automation and Labor at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair	p. 37
A Libratariat? Labor, Technology, and Librarianship in the Information Age	p. 53
Marketing Creative Labor: Hollywood "Making of" Documentary Features	p. 69
Commodification of Creativity: Reskilling Computer Animation Labor in Taiwan	p. 85
Glocalization in an Era of Globalization: Labor Relations in British Provincial Newspapers	p. 101
Spanish TV Production Goes Digital: Impact on Journalistic Routines, Workflow, and Newsroom Organization	p. 117
No Information Age Utopia: Knowledge Workers and Clients in the Social Service Sector	p. 133
Outsourcing Knowledge Work: Labor Responds to the New International Division of Labor	p. 147
"New" Economy/Old Labor: Creativity, Flatness, and Other Neo-liberal Myths	p. 163
Immaterial Labor, Precarity, and Recomposition	p. 177
New Media as a New Mode of Production?	p. 193
High-Tech Workers of the World, Unionize! A Case Study of WashTech's "New Model of Unionism"	p. 209
Short-Circuited? The Communication of Labor Struggles in China	p. 229
Women and Knowledge Work in the Asia-Pacific: Complicating Technological Empowerment	p. 249
Globalization and Workers' Power: The Struggle for Hegemony during the 1997 UPS Strike	p. 267
Labor Strife and Carnival Symbolism	p. 285
Neo-liberalism and Its Impact in the Telecommunications Industry: One Trade Unionist's Perspective	p. 299
Index	p. 311
About the Contributors	p. 321
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