Knowledge Workers in the Information Society

Catherine McKercher (Anthology Editor) , Vincent Mosco (Anthology Editor) , Enda Brophy (Contributor) , Dean Colby (Contributor) , Wan-Wen Day (Contributor) , Greig de Peuter (Contributor) ,
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Knowledge Workers in the Information Society

Catherine McKercher (Anthology Editor) , Vincent Mosco (Anthology Editor) , Enda Brophy (Contributor) , Dean Colby (Contributor) , Wan-Wen Day (Contributor) , Greig de Peuter (Contributor) ,
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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.

Table of 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

Product details

Published Feb 12 2008
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 350
ISBN 9780739117811
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 232 x 154 mm
Series Critical Media Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

CM
Anthology Editor

Catherine McKercher

VM
Anthology Editor

Vincent Mosco

EB
Contributor

Enda Brophy

DC
Contributor

Dean Colby

WD
Contributor

Wan-Wen Day

GP
Contributor

Greig de Peuter

GD
Contributor

Greg Downey

RD
Contributor

Rob Duffy

CF
Contributor

Colin T. Fones-Wolf

EF
Contributor

Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

GG
Contributor

Gregor Gall

MH
Contributor

Maris L. Hayashi

HJ
Contributor

Helen Johnson

JK
Contributor

Jyotsna Kapur

DK
Contributor

Deepa Kumar

CM
Contributor

Christopher R. Martin

PM
Contributor

Pere Masip

CM
Contributor

Catherine McKercher

LM
Contributor

Lisa McLaughlin

JM
Contributor

Josep Lluis Mico

VM
Contributor

Vincent Mosco

IN
Contributor

Ian Nagy

VR
Contributor

Vanda Rideout

MR
Contributor

Michelle Rodino-Colocino

SS
Contributor

Sid Shniad

AS
Contributor

Andrew Stevens

JS
Contributor

John L. Sullivan

JT
Contributor

James F. Tracy

YZ
Contributor

Yuezhi Zhao

Reviews

  • This book focuses on the most neglected group in the literature on our information-intensive economy: workers. After authoring several articles on this topic themselves, McKercher and Mosco are to be complimented for advancing this focus by bringing together authors in Europe, North America, and Asia to address the conditions of the diverse work force in the information economy: workers in journalism, film, libraries, telecommunication, digital equipment factories and call centers.

    Bella Mody, University of Colorado

  • The main strength of Knowledge Workers in the Information Society is the breadth of subjects and variety of methodological inquiry, and, although this is a joint effort, Canadian communication 'eminence grise' Vincent Mosco's hand, as editor and author, is very apparent. He and fellow editor McKercher have undertaken a much appreciated project that I hope will continue.

    Journal Of International Communication

  • At last, we have a book that gives knowledge workers back their agency. With analytical clarity and shrewd judgment, McKercher and Mosco have drawn together an impressive range of contributions from around the world that illustrate vividly, in all their complexity, the hard choices that knowledge workers make each day to balance their urge to creativity with their need to scrape a living and defend working conditions. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand knowledge work as it is in the real world, as opposed to the fantasies of policy gurus.

    Ursula Huws, Analytica Social and Economic Research

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