Böcker av Vincent Mosco

This 9 part book set includes all titles in the popular SocietyNow series, published between 2016-2019. This series presents the best academic expertise examining key events, trends and phenomenon of current times. Readable, accessible and digestible commentary on the most complex and defining topics of the 21st Century.

This volume takes a critical look at the specific forecasts and broader perspecives that shape popular understanding of a communications revolution.

The Laboring of Communication examines the transformation of work and of worker organizations in today's Information Society. The book focuses on how traditional trade unions and new worker associations growing out of social movements are coming together to address the crisis of organized labor. It concentrates on the creative responses of the technical and cultural workers in the mass media, telecommunications, and information technology industries. Concentrating on political economy, labor process, and feminist theory, it proceeds to offer several ways of thinking about communication workers and the nature of the society in which they work. Drawing on interviews and the documentary record, the book offers case studies of successful and unsuccessful efforts among both traditional and alternative worker organizations in the United States and Canada. It concludes by addressing the thorny issue of outsourcing, describing how global labor federations and nascent worker organizations in the developing world are coming together to develop creative solutions.

This important book by one of North America's leading experts in the field of Communication Studies calls into question utopian views of a post-industrial society.

Thoroughly updated edition of Vincent Mosco's classic overview of how power operates accross the media. No other book provides such a comprehensive coverage of the field.