Laboring under the Sign of the New

Organizing Resistance on the Internet: The Case of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

“…Current critical communication theorizing needs to explore the transformative aspects of communication emphasizing the potential of collective resistance to bring about social, economic, and political change in the context of neoliberalism (Cloud, 2001; Dutta, 2011; Ganesh et al, 2005). This essay contributes to the growing scholarship in the subdiscipline of communication on social change, and hopes to address the paucity of research in the field in general by underscoring the ways in which an activist group communicates in an online context with the goal of resisting global economic structures.…”

Construction Work: Evolving Discourses of the "Worker" in Management Textbooks, 1920s to the First Decade of the 21st

“…Work in this mode does not address workers specifically; instead it begins from a position of "persons as objects" (Cheney & Carroll, 1997), which turns attention to multiple roles within an organization (e.g., Farrell, 2000). Analyses that have focused on workers restrict themselves to examining shifting discourses in the "new" economy, such as the rise of the "knowledge worker" (Cloud, 2001). In one of the more worker-oriented examinations, Conrad and Poole (1997: 585) unpack the creation of the "disposable worker" and its functions in facilitating corporate downsizing.…”

Explicating Creativity and Design: The Nature and Meaningfulness of Work inMad Men

“…Doing so can inform understandings of how everyday ''people consume representations, drawing on and=or resisting them in performances of everyday life'' (Ashcraft & Mumby, 2004, p. 19). Moreover, despite critiques of cultural resistance (Cloud, 2001), a cultural studies approach to organizational communication invites research that problematizes definitions of organization, explores the fluidity of organization-culture boundaries, and lays the groundwork for subsequent and potential structural changes (Hollows & Moseley, 2006;Mumby & Stohl, 1996). As such, we ask the following research questions: What work is valued by Mad Men characters and the society in which they live?…”