Worker Resistance and Media

Lina Dencik (PhD, Goldsmiths) is Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. She is the author of Media and Global Civil Society (2012) and co-editor, with Oliver Leistert, of Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation (2015).Peter Wilkin (PhD, Southampton) is Reader in the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University. He is the author of The Political Economy of Global Communication (2001) and co-editor, with Mark Lacy, of Global Politics in the Information Age (2006).

• Contents: Labour, Media and Globalisation – Trade Unions, the Labour Movement and the First Wave of Globalisation – Labour and the Second Wave of Globalisation - Digitising the World-System – Social Media, Digital Activism and Labour Movements - Worker Resistance in the New Protest Environment – The Globalising of the Justice for Janitors Movement – Fast Food Forward - From Industrial Power to Public Image – The Domestic Workers Movement - Connecting Informal Labour – Online Labour Activism and State-Corporate Control – Re-Imagining Worker Resistance in the Twenty-First Century.

"For anyone interested in globalisation, inequality, new communications technology and social movements, this is a book you should read. It is lucid, anchored in empirical research, engages intelligently with globalisation theory, and is not confined to the west. It is an important and original book." (James Curran, Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London) "For anyone interested in globalisation, inequality, new communications technology and social movements, this is a book you should read. It is lucid, anchored in empirical research, engages intelligently with globalisation theory, and is not confined to the west. It is an important and original book." (James Curran, Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London)