Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

The "Box on the Dresser": Memories of Early Radio and Everyday Life

From Inventing American Broadcasting

The current review presents both postulated and empirically tested consequences of university unionization and labor strikes on the North American institution’s administration, faculty, and students. The review explores the impact of collective bargaining on employee working conditions including job security, academic freedom, university governance, and due process. More importantly, this review examines the much neglected issue of organizational work relationships in a unionized academic environment. The relationships discussed include those between faculty members, between the faculty and administration, between the faculty and the university as an institution, and between the faculty and their union. The threat of unionization and labor strikes to the professor–student or mentor–mentee relationship has been a central concern of those opposed to graduate student unions, and this issue is also addressed here. The text concludes with the identification of potential areas for future research.

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The organizational impact of university labor unions

It is ten years since this journal published ‘Ten Years of Radio Studies: The Very Idea!’, a reflection on a decade of work since the launch of the Radio Studies Network (Lacey, 2008). To caricature the main thesis, I argued against the idea of ‘radio studies’ on the grounds that there is no such thing as radio, and that setting up a new intellectual enclave would continue to isolate, distort and marginalise our work pragmatically, intellectually and philosophically. This essay is a response to the editors’ invitation – and challenge - to revisit that argument another ten years on.

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Up in the air? The matter of radio studies

Graduate student unions are beginning to attract attention in Canada and the United States. In Canada, unionization on campuses is especially important for organized labour, as union density has dropped below 30 percent for the first time in five decades. Graduate student unionization is also important in the wider context of precarious employment in North America. Despite the decline in overall union density, graduate student unions have continued to grow in the past decade. However, there is a paucity of scholarly research in this area. In this article, we trace the historical origins of graduate student unions in Canada, discuss relevant legal concerns, analyze pertinent collective bargaining and strike issues, and suggest avenues for future research.

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An Exploratory Study of Graduate Student Unions in Canada

Graduate student unions have been attracting considerable academic and practitioner attention recently, especially since the New York University decision in 2000. Given the declining fortunes of the union movement, it seems as if the academic sector has the potential of becoming a vital new organizing frontier. However, there is scant research on this issue. We trace the origins and evolution of graduate student unions in the United States, discuss the relevant statutory and case law, analyze pertinent collective bargaining and strike issues, and suggest avenues for future research.

Graduate Student Unions in the United States

This article explores the development of the early Canadian radio audience. Without a pattern to follow, the listeners found ways to listen that reflected the restrictions and possibilities of the new technology. Early listeners picked favorite programs, became club members, and were sports fans for the first time. The early listening experiences created the foundation for radio audiences and their listening patterns.

Learning to Listen: Developing the Canadian Radio Audience in the 1930s

What’s a celebration of a hundred years of history without names, dates, and places, perhaps a timeline? This symposium celebrates one hundred years of broadcasting. This issue broadens the meaning...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19376529.2020.1831865

Celebrating a Hundred Years of Broadcasting – An Introduction and Timeline

The Journal of Radio & Audio Media marks the beginning of its twenty-fifth year with this issue. As Frank Chorba envisioned in the early years of the Journal of Radio Studies, the journal continues...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19376529.2018.1442658

Anne F. MacLennan

Papers

An Exploratory Study of Graduate Student Unions in Canada

Graduate Student Unions in the United States

Learning to Listen: Developing the Canadian Radio Audience in the 1930s

Celebrating a Hundred Years of Broadcasting – An Introduction and Timeline

Editor’s Remarks: Radio Research over Time and across Platforms as the Journal of Radio & Audio Media Starts Its Twenty-Fifth Year