Convergence Bites Back: Labour Struggles in the Canadian Communication Industry

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Beteiligte: Mosco, Vincent
In: Canadian Journal of Communication, 31, 2006, 3, S. 733-752
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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Umfang: 733-752
ISSN: 0705-3657
1499-6642
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2006v31n3a1756
veröffentlicht in: Canadian Journal of Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>This article examines the concept of labour convergence in the context of two significant labour struggles in the Canadian communication industry: the 2005 lockouts at Canada’s national public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and at Canada’s second-largest telecommunications company, the Telus Corporation. It begins with a brief analysis of convergence as a technological and institutional process, specifically as it applies to communication technology, the communication arena, and communication companies, and as a myth that contains utopian visions of universal connectedness. The article then describes how labour is deploying its own form of convergence, a form that conflicts with and sometimes “bites back” at the communication industry and its dream of friction-free capitalism.</jats:p>