Laboring of Communication

Catherine McKercher is professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.Vincent Mosco is professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society at Queen's University.

• Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 Preface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 1 Introduction: New Responses to Bad Times for Organized LaborChapter 4 2 Theorizing Knowledge LaborChapter 5 3 Women and Work: Feminism and Political EconomyChapter 6 4 Convergence, Solidarity, and Labor Power: The Dream of One Big UnionChapter 7 5 Labor Convergence in the Information EconomyChapter 8 6 Beyond Business as Usual: Social Movement Unionism and Information WorkersChapter 9 7 Workers in a Changing Global Division of LaborChapter 10 References

In this textured empirical and theoretical examination of the workers in new media and information systems, Mosco and McKercher answer Castells's technology-focused network society with a critical sociological study of the conditions of work and the labor struggles in the making of the new global capitalist informational economy.