CMNS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Offshoring, Call Centre, Deskilling

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The spread of lexible/precarious employment within and beyond the creaive industries. How ideals of creaivity, play and passion are mobilized in these industries. The growth of internships as a way to break in; prevalent ideas that young workers have to pay dues: unpaid internships: working relaionships like this obscure problemaic working condiions. And some of the ways workers are beginning to organize to respond to the problemaic labour condiions they face, including policy proposals and new forms of collecive organizaion. Precarious employment also strongly gendered: women over represented. Profound diference b/w diferent types of precarious employments: yes, all sectors made more lexible. But experienced diferently depending on sector you work in and job you do. Today we"re looking at global producion, and the essenial role communicaion plays in it. New internaional division of labour theory (1970s: producion divided into two parts. Unskilled iltered out into economic periphery/global periphery. Thomas friedman"s lat world theory: suggested in 2000s.

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