1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911047667003321

Autore

Canella Gino

Titolo

Raising Class Consciousness : Labor Movements and Communication Power in the Information Age / / edited by Gino Canella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

3-032-02238-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Collana

Dynamics of Virtual Work, , 2947-9304

Disciplina

306.36

Soggetti

Industrial sociology

Deviant behavior

Social control

Communication

Information theory

Digital media

Sociology of Work

Deviance and Social Control

Media and Communication Theory

Digital and New Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: “Raising Class Consciousness,” Gino Canella -- Chapter 1: “Raising Class Consciousness,” Gino Canella -- Chapter 3: “1960s Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements and Using Newsletters to Organize,” Todd Wolfson and Chris Robé -- Chapter 4: “Making the News and The Wapping Dispute,” Sam Kemp and Amil Mohanan -- Chapter 5: “Union-Owned Newspapers and Trade Union Power,” Torsten Geelan -- Chapter 6: “Platforming Media Work,” Tai Neilson -- Chapter 7: “Digital Communicative Media Unionism,” Errol Salamon -- Chapter 8: “Workplace Bulletins and Digital Technology,” Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock -- Chapter 9: “The Protest Paradigm, Labor News, and Geopolitics,” Jinao Li, Carl Zhou, Linyi Gao, Yingqi Huang and Yan Zhang -- Chapter 10: “Education, Unions, and Digital Disruption,” Holger Pötzsch -- Chapter 11: “A Digital Strike? Social Media



Organizing in the 2018 Teachers’ Revolt,” Eric Blanc -- Chapter 12: “At Uber: Conditions, Opportunities and Obstacles in Building Worker Solidarity,” Dragana Mrvos -- Chapter 13: “Digital Labor-Sphere: Delivery Workers Resistance in Turkey,” Mehmet Kayın, İlker Kafalı and Uğur Baloğlu.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the unequal power dynamics embedded in technological change. Offering critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on labor and communication, the book demonstrates how the adoption and implementation of technologies are political processes, shaped by economic incentives, worker organizing and state intervention. The book reviews how contemporary technologies like algorithms and artificial intelligence are deepening worker precarity, fragmenting labor movements and reinforcing echo chambers. Yet, it also highlights how workers have leveraged various communication technologies—past and present—to reclaim their agency during moments of disruption. Gino Canella is a documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor of Journalism at Emerson College, USA. His interests include social movements, visual culture, and labor. He studies how grassroots movements communicate their issues and organize campaigns for social justice.