1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464392203321

Autore

Waltz Mitzi

Titolo

Alternative and Activist Media [[electronic resource] /] / Mitzi Waltz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, GBR, : Edinburgh University Press, 2005

Edinburgh University Press

ISBN

0-7486-1957-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Alternative mass media

Mass media

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Media Studies

Journalism & Communications

Communication & Mass Media

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143- 146) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This study of alternative and activist media provides an introduction to alternative media theories, audiences and practices. It brings diverse voices and concepts from outside the commercial media world to the fore, enriching and challenging mass media. Illustrated with historical and current examples, from both a UK and international perspective, it also includes carefully constructed exercises and discussion topics based on case studies and available texts.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910773614003321

Titolo

Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations Through History and Art

Pubbl/distr/stampa

UCL Press

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Work Around the World

Altri autori (Persone)

BatistaAnamarija

MullerViola

PeresCorinna

Disciplina

331.1

Soggetti

Forced labor

Forced labor in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Coercion and Wage Labour  presents novel histories of people who experienced physical, social, political or cultural compulsion in the course of paid work. Broad in scope, the chapters examine diverse areas of work including textile production, war industries, civil service and domestic labour, in contexts from the Middle Ages to the present day. They demonstrate that wages have consistently shaped working people's experiences, and failed to protect workers from coercion. Instead, wages emerge as versatile tools to bind, control, and exploit workers. Remuneration mirrors the distribution of power in labour relations, often separating employers physically and emotionally from their employees, and disguising coercion.   The book makes historical narratives accessible for interdisciplinary audiences. Most chapters are preceded by illustrations by artists invited to visually conceptualise the book's key messages and to emphasise the presence of the body and landscape in the realm of work. In turn, the chapter texts reflect back on the artworks, creating an intense intermedial dialogue that offers mutually relational 'translations' and narrations of labour coercion. Other contributions written by art scholars discuss how coercion in remunerated labour is constructed and reflected in artistic practice. The



collection serves as an innovative and creative tool for teaching, and raises awareness that narrating history is always contingent on the medium chosen and its inherent constraints and possibilities.   <strong>Praise for  Coercion and Wage Labour </strong>   'This is a pioneering volume. It makes a well-founded break with the widespread misconception that wage labour is by definition free from coercion. The 14 historical case studies cover a vast geographical area and review a long time period. Together, they lead to the conclusion that wage labourers too were subject to many forms of coercion and that usually their "freedom" was and is only relative. But something else makes this book special: throughout the text there are artistic illustrations that enter into a dialogue with the individual chapters and create an inspiring interaction that complements the volume's interdisciplinary nature.'   Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam