ABSTRACT
Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry’s high-tech trash. The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media is the first book to bring together representative research from the diverse body of scholarly work surrounding this often fragmentary field, and seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the study and teaching of media and labor. Essays examine work on the mostly unglamorous side of media and cultural production, technology manufacture, and every occupation in between.
Specifically, this book features:
-wide-ranging international case studies spanning the major global hubs of media labor;
-interdisciplinary approaches for thinking about and analyzing class and labor in information communication technology (ICT), consumer electronics (CE), and media/cultural production;
-an overview of global political economic conditions affecting media workers;
-reports on chemical environments and their effect on the health of media workers and consumers;
-activist scholarship on media and labor, and inspiring stories of resistance and solidarity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|62 pages
The Changing Face of Media Labor: Networks, Clouds, and Digitalized Work
chapter 4|11 pages
Mediations of Labor
section II|28 pages
Materials and Chemical Impact on Workers and Consumers
section III|174 pages
Media Labor Around the World
chapter 8|14 pages
Workers of the World, Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose but Your (Global Value) Chains
chapter 11|13 pages
Behind the Line
chapter 13|16 pages
The Exceptional Intermittents du Spectacle
chapter 16|12 pages
The Straw That Broke the Tiger’s Back?
chapter 17|15 pages
Crisis or Innovation?
chapter 18|13 pages
History of the International Movement of Journalists
chapter 20|10 pages
Student Media Labor in the Digital Age
section IV|78 pages
Activism, Organization, Worker Resistance, and Media Labor’s Future