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Subject: Work Organisation Labour and Globalisation
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Work Organisation Labour and Globalisation
ISSN- 1745- 641X
We are proud to announce the publication of Volume I No 1 of this new
international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal.
Also published independently as a book entitled
The Spark in the Engine: Creative Workers in a Global Economy
0850365821 / ISBN 978 0 85036 582 5
in association with Merlin Press - http://www.merlinpress.co.uk.
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation brings together insights from
the fields of Political Economy, Communications Studies, Labour Sociology,
Gender Studies, Economic Geography, Trade Union Studies and Development
Studies to further our understanding of the new international division of
labour that is emerging in a global knowledge economy.To find out more go
to http://www.cybertariat.com
To place a trade order for the book, [standard trade terms apply] or a
standing order contact the Distributor: Central Books Ltd, 99 Wallis Road,
London, E9 5LN, England, Tel: +44 20 8936 4854. Fax:+44 20 8533 5821
orders@centralbooks.com
Available Mail Order from: http://www.merlinpress.co.uk.
orders@merlinpress.co.uk
Contents
The Spark in the Engine: Creative Workers in a Global Economy
by Ursula Huws, Professor of International Labour Studies, London
Metropolitan University
Nice Work if You Can Get it: The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries
Policy
by Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York
University. USA
The New Knowledge Aristocracy: The Creative Class, Mobility and Urban Growth
by Richard Shearmur, Canada Research Chair in Spatial Statistics and
Public Policy in the Spatial Analysis and Regional Economics Laboratory,
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Urbanisation, Culture et
Société at the University of Québec at Montréal in Québec, Canada.
Sunset in the West: A Case Study of Outsourcing of Editorial Work from the
UK to India
by Simone Dahlmann, Research Fellow at Analytica and at the Working Lives
Research Institute at London Metropolitan University, UK and Ursula Huws,
Professor of International Labour Studies, London Metropolitan University
and Director, Analytica, UK
Divided they Stand: Hollywood Unions in the Information Age
by Catherine McKercher, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism
and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and Vincent
Mosco, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Sociology at Queen's
University in Kingston, Canada.
'Suits' and 'Creatives': Managerial Control, the Expropriation of Fun and
the Manufacture of Consent
by Bob Hughes, senior lecturer in Interactive Media in the Publishing
Department at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, UK.
Creating a Sustainable Future? The Working Life of Creative Workers in Vienna
by Sybille Reidl, researcher at the Joanneum Research Centre at the
Institute of Technology and Regional Policy in Vienna, Austria, Helene
Schiffbänker, senior researcher at the Joanneum Research Centre at the
Institute of Technology and Regional Policy in Vienna, Austria, and Hubert
Eichmann, senior researcher at Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt
(FORBA), the Working Life Research Centre in Vienna, Austria.
Make like a Man: The Demands of Creative Work, Gender and the Management
of Everyday Life
by Bettina-Johanna Krings, senior researcher at the Institute for
Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) Forschungszentrum at
the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Who are the Fairest of Them All? Ethnic Segmentation in London's Media
Production
by Ashika Thanki, researcher currently employed as a fieldworker by the
Red Cross, Indonesia and Steve Jefferys, Professor of European Labour
Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK
Rethinking Progressive and Conservative Values: Values of Spanish
employees in the New Economy
By Armando Fernández Steinko, Professor of Sociology at the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Immaterial Fordism: The Paradox of Game Industry Labour
by Leif Schumacher, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication at Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada
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