Ned Rossiter <ned@nedrossiter.org> wrote: From: Ned Rossiter <ned@nedrossiter.org>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:33:53 +0000To: my-ci@orgnets.netSubject: [My-ci] Fwd: Creative Workers in a Global Economy - new publication From: ursulahuws@analyticaresearch.co.ukSubject: Creative Workers in a Global Economy - new publicationDate: 30 January 2007 19:54:48 GMT+00:00To all those with an interest in Communications Studies, Media Studies and Cultural StudiesWe 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 in association with Merlin Press in the UK and Fernwood Publishing in Canada.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 or to subscribe, go to http://www.cybertariat.com and take advantage of our special introductory ratesOr to read online go to http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/analyticaSubmissions to future issues are welcomed, especially from contributors in the global South. Future topics will include: towards a critical understanding of the new global division of labour; trade union responses to globalisation, the role of global corporations in the privatisation of public services, informalisation and migration.ContentsThe Spark in the
Engine: Creative Workers in a Global Economyby Ursula Huws, Professor of International Labour Studies, London Metropolitan UniversityNice Work if You Can Get it: The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries Policyby Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. USAThe New Knowledge Aristocracy: The Creative Class, Mobility and Urban Growthby 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 Indiaby 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, UKDivided they Stand: Hollywood Unions in the Information Ageby 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 Consentby 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 Viennaby 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 Lifeby 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 Productionby 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, UKRethinking Progressive and Conservative Values: Values of Spanish employees in the New EconomyBy Armando
Fernández Steinko, Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.Immaterial Fordism: The Paradox of Game Industry Labourby Leif Schumacher, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication at Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaAPOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------Ursula HuwsProfessor of International Labour StudiesWorking Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan Universityand Director of Analytica Publicationsweb: www.analyticapublications.co.uktel: +44 20 7226 8411fax: +44 20 7226 0813mobile: +44 7711 3292 67------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - NEW JOURNAL - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Work Organisation Labour and Globalisationto subscribe
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