Raising Class Consciousness: Labor Movements and Communication Power in the Information Age

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Gino Canella

Raising Class Consciousness

Labor Movements and Communication Power in the Information Age

Gino Canella

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
22 November 2025

Communication studies; Media studies; Sociology: work & labour; Industrial relations & safety

Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work

This book focuses on the unequal power dynamics embedded in technological change. Offering critical and international perspectives on labor and communication, the book demonstrates how the adoption and implementation of technologies are political processes shaped by economic incentives, worker organizing and state intervention. The book reviews how contemporary technologies like algorithms and artificial intelligence are deepening worker precarity, fragmenting labor movements and reinforcing echo chambers. Yet, it also highlights how workers have leveraged various communication technologies—past and present—to reclaim their agency during moments of disruption.

Edited by: Gino Canella
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783032022370
ISBN 10: 3032022371
Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 22 November 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: “Raising Class Consciousness,” Gino Canella.- Chapter 1: “Raising Class Consciousness,” Gino Canella.- Chapter 3: “1960s Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements and Using Newsletters to Organize,” Todd Wolfson and Chris Robé.- Chapter 4: “Making the News and The Wapping Dispute,” Sam Kemp and Amil Mohanan.- Chapter 5: “Union-Owned Newspapers and Trade Union Power,” Torsten Geelan.- Chapter 6: “Platforming Media Work,” Tai Neilson.- Chapter 7: “Digital Communicative Media Unionism,” Errol Salamon.- Chapter 8: “Workplace Bulletins and Digital Technology,” Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock.- Chapter 9: “The Protest Paradigm, Labor News, and Geopolitics,” Jinao Li, Carl Zhou, Linyi Gao, Yingqi Huang and Yan Zhang.- Chapter 10: “Education, Unions, and Digital Disruption,” Holger Pötzsch.- Chapter 11: “A Digital Strike? Social Media Organizing in the 2018 Teachers’ Revolt,” Eric Blanc.- Chapter 12: “At Uber: Conditions, Opportunities and Obstacles in Building Worker Solidarity,” Dragana Mrvos.- Chapter 13: “Digital Labor-Sphere: Delivery Workers Resistance in Turkey,” Mehmet Kayın, İlker Kafalı and Uğur Baloğlu.

Gino Canella is a documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor of Journalism at Emerson College, USA. His interests include social movements, visual culture, and labor. He studies how grassroots movements communicate their issues and organize campaigns for social justice.