Global productions : labor in the making of the "information society" / edited by Gerald Sussman, John A. Lent ; [prologue by David F. Noble]

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Global productions / Gerald Sussman and John A. Lent -- Political economy, communication, and labor / Vincent Mosco -- Information networks: 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: information/communication technology production in Hong Kong and Shenzhen / 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.