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.