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.
| ISBN: | 9781138731776 |
| Publication date: | 7th February 2017 |
| Author: | Richard Maxwell |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 394 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Companions |
| Genres: |
Media studies Sociology: work and labour Media, entertainment, information and communication industries Communication studies Development studies Library and information sciences / Museology History The environment Information technology: general topics |
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.
The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media features in the following genres: Media studies, Sociology: work and labour, Media, entertainment, information and communication industries, Communication studies, Development studies, Library and information sciences / Museology, History, The environment, Information technology: general topics
The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media was written by Richard Maxwell and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media has 394 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Companions series
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