New Media Unions

Cohen and de Peuter have written a timely and invaluable book based on meticulous research and trenchant analysis. The recent surge of labor organizing within media institutions deserves far more attention and this pioneering work promises to become a field-defining text in journalism studies and political economy. Underscoring the vital need for unionizing journalists, this book should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central role of class politics and increasing precarity within the rapidly changing media landscape. - Victor Pickard, author of Journalism Without Democracy: Confronting the Misinformation Society At once informative and inspiring, New Media Unions is a remarkable book about dramatic recent changes in both the virtual networks and class relations of North America. Cohen and de Peuter show how unionization has seized the imagination of young journalists in digital newsrooms across North America. Rigorously researched and analytically sharp, yet eminently readable, New Media Unions challenges every preconception about individualistic digital culture, depoliticized millennials and the futility of workplace organizing: it shows the path to a workers' Internet. - Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex I would recommend this as a must-read for all students of media and communication, journalists, and media workers at all levels and stages of the information economy. And for all of us who are involved in media labour research, this book also signals new vistas for us to explore, fuels us with hope and most importantly, encourages us to act. - Kailash Koushik, Artha-Journal of Social Sciences