Media and Management

Rutvica Andrijasevic, Melissa Gregg, Marc Steinberg, Julie Yujie Chen

• Publisher: Meson Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781452966038
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

An essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor

This book argues that management is enabled by media forms, just as media gives life to management. Media technologies central to management have included the stopwatch, the punch card, the calculator, and the camera, while management theories are taught in printed and virtual textbooks and online through TED talks. In each stage of the evolving relationship between workers and employers, management innovations are learned through media, with media formats producing fresh opportunities for management.

Drawing on rich historical and ethnographic case studies, this book approaches key instances of the industrial and service economy—the legacy of Toyotism in today’s software industry, labor mediators in electronics manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe, and app-based food-delivery platforms in China—to push media and management studies in new directions. Media and Management offers a provocative insight on the future of labor and media that inevitably cross geographical boundaries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Series Foreword
• Introduction: Platform Capitalism Has a Hardware History
• [1] Management’s Mediations: The Case of Toyotism
• [2] “Just-in-Time Labor”: Time-Based Management in the Age of On-Demand Manufacturing
• [3] Spaces of Labor Mediation: Policy, Platform, and Media
• Coda: Closures and Openings
• Authors