The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?, by Vincent Mosco and Catherine McKercher. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 359 pp. $70 hardcover/$29.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-7391-1813-9 (hardcover).

摘要

The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? bears witness to the implications of multiple forms of convergence: technological convergence, industry convergence, trade union convergence, and theoretical convergence. In doing so, it testifies urgently to the necessity for researchers, activists, and laborers to work toward interrupting the extension of capital still deeper into every aspect of the human experience. The ongoing struggle Mosco and McKercher document is not ultimately about computers, call centers, or content. It remains, always, about people-in this case, the knowledge workers who labor to build computers, write software and news articles, perform for the screen, answer phones; and the relative few who work in more secure positions with benefits, "permatemps," hourly workers, and yes, academics.