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E-Lancer Resistance
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In 2009 and 2013, labor organizations of freelance journalists in Canada formed coalitions and initiated digital communications campaigns to boycott rights-grabbing freelancer contracts of the publishing conglomerate TC Media.Abstract:
In 2009 and 2013, labor organizations of freelance journalists in Canada formed coalitions and initiated digital communications campaigns to boycott rights-grabbing freelancer contracts of the publishing conglomerate TC Media. These disputes reveal the ongoing industrial struggles over journalists’ copyrights, demonstrating tensions between the continuing control and devaluation of freelance labor to increase corporate profits as well as freelancers’ use of digital communications to resist the law of copyright. Through an examination of these tensions, the broader political-economic context and labor process of freelance work, and freelance journalists’ collective organizing, this paper develops a conception of the precarious “e-lancer,” a feminized and electronically connected class of journalists. The TC Media campaigns are situated within a broader history of freelancer struggles in North America and Western Europe. Since 1993, freelancers have adopted three refusal tactics: class-action lawsuits, cont...read more
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