Two labor scholars argue that the balance of power between workers and employers, which has been tilted toward employers for nearly a half-century, is beginning to shift.
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What does it say about the online media ecosystem when the end of a 146-day strike is buried under headlines and posts about Swift’s budding romance with NFL star Travis Kelce?
With the TV writers and actors strikes leaving networks with little scripted content, the fall 2023 lineup will be saturated with low-cost reality TV shows like ‘The Voice.’
When unions amass large sums of money to parcel out to workers, it can give them more leverage in negotiations with employers.
Many of the reasons for strikes now – low compensation, technological change, job insecurity and safety concerns – mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.
Given the hypocritical and exploitative treatment of artists by entertainment industries, do we really have moral obligations to pay for streaming services?
Hollywood has been using artificial intelligence for 20 years. But the current actors’ and writers’ strikes are specifically concerned about generative AI.
Reagan is the only union leader to serve as US President. Paradoxically, he was also one of the most aggressively anti-union presidents of the 20th century.
Some of the ways that streaming has transformed the industry are jeopardizing actors’ livelihoods.
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Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Labor Center, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Management, Penn State
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
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Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
