Percival, N and Lee, D orcid.org/0000-0002-9186-2401 (2022) Get Up, Stand Up? Theorizing Mobilization in Creative Work. Television and New Media, 23 (2). pp. 202-218. ISSN 1527-4764
Abstract
This article concerns individualism, collective awareness and organized resistance in the creative industries. It applies the lens of John Kelly’s mobilization theory (1998), usually used in a trade union context, to “TV WRAP,” a successful non-unionized campaign facilitated through an online community in the UK television (TV) industry in 2005, and finds that Kelly’s prerequisites to mobilization were all present. It explores previously unpublished questionnaire data from a 2011 survey of over 1,000 UK film and TV workers, which suggests that such prerequisites to mobilization are still present in the TV workforce. Finally it examines recent and ongoing mobilization by video game workers as a modern comparison, updating the relevance of Kelly’s theory to explore and consider potential models for a new politics of resistance in the digital age.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
Keywords: | creative industries; freelance; Kelly; mobilization; resistance; television; trade union |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2020 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:30 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1527476420969909 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168335 |