---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 19:23:00 -0400 From: Sam Lanfranco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Book: GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS: LABOR IN THE MAKING OF THE "INFORMATION SOCIETY" > GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS: > LABOR IN THE MAKING OF THE "INFORMATION SOCIETY" > > edited by Gerald Sussman and John A. Lent > > As transnational capital has moved beyond its national shores and > taken on supranational dimensions, so too have labor forces been > integrated on a worldwide scale to produce the artifacts of > communication and information networks of the "Information > Society." This volume, written by a group of international > authors, discusses the "Information Society" from the perspective > of work forces employed within its global electronics factories, > back offices, movie lots, TV and animation studios, and telephone > service centers--the new international division of labor. > Global Productions provides empirical case studies, history, > theory, and analysis focusing on the changes occurring at the > sites of production of communication and information commodities > in both industrial and less developed countries. Topics > addressed include the political economy of communication, the > "offshoring" of jobs, worker strife in Silicon Valley, new > challenges to Hollywood's labor force, transnationalization of > film and TV production, the division of labor in the global > animation industry, and the initiatives taken by various > industrial, communication, and mass media trade unions. > > Contents: Prologue, David F. Noble. Global Productions, Gerald > Sussman and John A. Lent. Political Economy, Communication, and > Labor, Vincent Mosco. The Global Offshore Labor Force, Mark I. > Wilson. The Caribbean Data Processors, Ewart C. Skinner. New > Chips in Old Skins: Work and Labor in Silicon Valley, Lenny > Siegel. Electronics, Communications, and Labor: The Malaysia > Connection, Gerald Sussman. Regional Subcontracting and Labor in > the Production of Information/Communication Technology in Hong > Kong and Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (PRC), Lai Si Tsui-Auch. > Challenges to Hollywood's Labor Force in the 1990s, Janet Wasko. > Beyond the Last Bastion: Industrial Restructuring and the Labor > Force in the British Television Industry, James Cornford and > Kevin Robins. Hollywood North: Film and TV Production in Canada, > Manjunath Pendakur. The Animation Industry and Its Offshore > Factories, John A. Lent. Restructuring Global Telecommunications: > The Telephone Workers' Response in British Columbia, Sid Shniad > and Charley Richardson. Trade Union Telematics for International > Collective Bargaining, Dave Spooner. Author Index. Subject Index. > > 1998 320 pages ISBN: 1-57273-171-0 Cloth > ISBN: 1-47273-172-9 Pb > > Send orders to: > Hampton Press, Inc. > 23 Broadway, Suite 208 > Cresskill, NJ 07626 > USA > Phone: (201) 894-1686 > Fax: (201) 894-8732 > > Gerry Sussman, Professor > School of Urban Studies and Planning > College of Urban and Public Affairs > Portland State University > Portland, OR 97207 > Fax: (503) 725-5199 or x8770 > Phone: (503) 725-5176 >
