Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century - Paperback

by Peter Wilkin (Author), Simon Cottle (Other), Lina Dencik (Author)

This book is a timely and necessary examination of how organized labour and workers movements are engaging with this shifting environment. Based on extensive empirical research into emerging migrant and low-wage workers movements and their media practices, this book takes a critical look at the nature of worker resistance to ever-growing global corporate power in a digital age.

Author Biography

Lina Dencik (PhD, Goldsmiths) is Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. She is the author of Media and Global Civil Society (2012) and co-editor, with Oliver Leistert, of Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation (2015).
Peter Wilkin (PhD, Southampton) is Reader in the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University. He is the author of The Political Economy of Global Communication (2001) and co-editor, with Mark Lacy, of Global Politics in the Information Age (2006).