With Just Cause is a collection of essays on the relationship between the trend toward unionization and the development of the newspaper publishing industry. Selected Contents: Where We Came From: A Brief History of the Writers Guild of America; Uniting Freelance Writers: The National Writers Union; Printing Trades Unions in the Media; Collective Bargaining: A Foundation for Worker Rights; The Union Shop: Requiring Journalists to Join a Union; Media Unions Before the American Newspaper Guild; The Open Shop Agreement of the A.N.P.A.; Anticommunism in the New York Newspaper Guild; Who Killed the Herald Tribune; Endorsing Politicians and Social Issues: Freedom of Speech and a Union's Right v. Media Credibility and an Illusion of Objectivity; A Brief Look at Publishers and Newspaper Carriers; 'When It's Over, We Won't Care About You Anymore' The Mainstream Press Covers Labor; The Labor Press in America.
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It offers useful case studies of several labor disputes from the past three decades, and concludes with several articles on current issues facing media unions and media workers. * Libertarian Labor Review * In 44 chapters, Brasch and several of the nation's leading journalists and labor leaders explore everything from the need for the creation of media unions...to how the media cover labor. * Labor Herald * It consists of 44 items: documents, reprints, and some original articles, among which several of the best were written by Brasch himself. * The Guild Reporter * ...comprehensive, compelling, well-reasoned, -written and -packaged, and a useful reference for recent journalism school graduates or seasoned personnel directors at newspapers. * The Illinois Publisher * ...the book provides a great deal of material that will be invaluable to organizers today. * In These Times * ...a welcome addition to the literature....a lively and informative book one can read with profit while awaiting a comprehensive, up-to-date history of this important and growing sector of the union movement. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review * It offers useful case studies of several labor disputes from the past three decades, and concludes with several articles on current issues facing media unions and media workers. * Libertarian Labor Review * In 44 chapters, Brasch and several of the nation's leading journalists and labor leaders explore everything from the need for the creation of media unions...to how the media cover labor. * Labor Herald * It consists of 44 items: documents, reprints, and some original articles, among which several of the best were written by Brasch himself. * The Guild Reporter * ...comprehensive, compelling, well-reasoned, -written and -packaged, and a useful reference for recent journalism school graduates or seasoned personnel directors at newspapers. * The Illinois Publisher * ...the book provides a great deal of material that will be invaluable to organizers today. * In These Times * With Just Cause not only is about journalism, it is journalism, with the crucial element of objectivity present throughout. * The Labor Paper * This volume...a kind of bible on the subject. * Editor and Publisher *
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 149 mm
Dicke: 35 mm
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978-0-8191-8361-3 (9780819183613)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Walter M. Brasch is Professor of Journalism at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He is also the author of The Press and the State (UPA, 1986) and Forerunners of the Revolution (UPA, 1990).
