Mosco identifies labour, and the specific conditions of creative labour, as one of the key issues for those doing political economy of media. Analyze such conditions of labour for a given media industry. What are the key issues or challenges faced by workers in your chosen industry? How have the conditions of labour changed over time?
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To paraphrase Karl Marx: Men and women make history, but they do not make it as they please. Hernandez and Beckert both write about the way that the Chinese in California and the working class in New York influenced the history of these regions. Even though the Chinese and the workers were not the victors in their respective conflicts, they did shape and influence identity, law and politics in various ways.
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ACME Inc. gave generous vacation benefits to its employees. New employees received three weeks of paid leave, and employees with over 25 years seniority received six weeks of paid leave. With the economic downturn, ACME decided to give all employees only three weeks paid leave a year, to boost worker productivity. The employees with over 25 years seniority (all over 40 years old) sued ACME under a disparate impact claim, claiming that the policy deprived them of a benefit, while it did not deprive younger workers of that same benefit.
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You are a Public Relations Department employee of Celgene Corp., and you have been asked by the company to address the public outcry regarding the current price of its Thalidomide pill. You must prepare a two-to-three-page report in which you discuss what you believe are the company’s ethical responsibilities in this case. You must address in your discussions whether you believe the company is abiding by its ethical responsibilities and whether the main concern should be the public benefit or the financial health of the company.
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