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BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor
- Author(s):
- Gloria Lee McMillan (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, Radical Caucus, Rust Belt Literature, Urban Cultural Studies
- Subject(s):
- Protest literature, Rhetoric, Cultural relations, Historical sociology, Working class--Study and teaching, Equality
- Item Type:
- Book review
- Tag(s):
- media coverage, Labor Unions, social justice, empowerment, representations, Rhetorics of political protest, Cultural encounters, Working-class studies, Social inequality
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GN82
- Abstract:
- The idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and voices of management. The common assumption that labor media coverage became more skewed with the recent decline of unions in the US, but William Puette's _Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media view Organized Labor_ shows this is erroneous. He shows how editorial cartoons, for examples, demonized labor from the work of Thomas Nast drawing for _Harper's Monthly_ onward.
- Notes:
- The idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and management, Coverage didn’t become more skewed with the recent decline of unions in the US, but William Puette's Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media view Organized Labor_ and two journal essays show this assumption is erroneous.
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- Published as:
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
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