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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Section I The Changing Face of Media Labor: Networks, Clouds, and Digitalized Work
1 Labor and Digital Capitalism
2 Working (or Not) in the Cloud: Chains of Accumulation and Chains of Resistance
3 Exploitation and Media Labor
4 Mediations of Labor: Algorithmic Architectures, Logistical Media, and the Rise of Black Box Politics
5 Dallas Smythe and Digital Labor
Section II Materials and Chemical Impact on Workers and Consumers
6 The Body Burden: Toxics, Stresses, and Biophysical Health
7 Health and Safety Policies for Electronics Workers
Section III Media Labor Around the World
8 Workers of the World, Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose but Your (Global Value) Chains: The NICL Revisited
9 Embracing Communication: China’s Post-2008 Economic Restructuring and Labor
10 “Free Birds”: The New Precariat in India’s Mobile Phone Manufacturing
11 Behind the Line: Information Privatization and the Reification of Work in the Call Center of a Brazilian State-Owned Telecommunications Company
12 The Creative in the Middle: Knowledge Workers in a Medium-Sized Company in Spain
13 The Exceptional Intermittents du Spectacle: Hyperflexibility as the Avant-Garde of Labor Security in France
14 UK Art Workers, Class, and the Myth of Mobility
15 The Unfunny Tale of Labor and Cartooning in the US and Around the World
16 The Straw That Broke the Tiger’s Back? Skilled Labor, Social Networks, and Protest in the Digital Workshops of the World
17 Crisis or Innovation? The Norwegian Journalist Between Market and Ideals in the Multimedia Era
18 History of the International Movement of Journalists: Shifting Drives of Profession, Labor, and Politics
19 The Planned Obsolescence of TV Journalism
20 Student Media Labor in the Digital Age: MediaNOLA in the Classroom and the University
21 The Work of Wearing Cameras: Body-Worn Devices and Police Media Labor
Section IV Activism, Organization, Worker Resistance, and Media Labor’s Future
22 The GoodElectronics Network: Making IT Fair?
23 Centro de Reflexión y Acción Laboral: Defending Electronics Workers in Mexico
24 Chinese Labor Protest and Trade Unions
25 Locating Worker-Generated Content (WGC) in the World’s Factory
26 Labor Messaging: Practices of Autonomous Communication
27 The Future of Activism for Electronics Workers
Bibliography
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