Hive-sourcing is the new out-sourcing: Studying old (industrial) labor habits in new (consumer) labor clothes

Cinema Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 160-167

  Caldwell, John T ^a  

^a UCLA's School of Theater Film and Television   (United States)

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EID: 77949441392     PISSN: 00097101     EISSN: 15272087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cj.0.0176     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. Chris Anderson, The Long Tail (New York: Hyperion, 2006), 73.
2. Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
3. John T. Caldwell, Production Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), 324.
4. Perhaps the best theory and systematic analysis of the push for "free labor," outside of Hollywood, emerging from broad-based Internet activities is Tiziana Terranova, "Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy," http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/ technocapitalism/voluntary (accessed March 30, 2009).
5. In addition to Anderson's The Long Tail and Jenkins's Convergence Culture, see also Henry Jenkins, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers (New York: New York University Press, 2006);
6. and Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006).
7. There are, admittedly, a lot of management books that optimistically promote new and visionary forms of employee relations and institutional reorganization. See, for example, Lynda Gratton, Hot Spots (London: Berrett-Koehler, 2007).
8. Workers themselves have mounted alternatives to the business press tomes, like Greg Costykian's Scratchware Manifesto, http://209.120.136.195/scratch.php (accessed March 15, 2009).
9. For a good introduction to some of these issues, see Felicia Henderson, "The Writers' Room," in Production Studies, ed. Vicky Mayer, Miranda Banks, and John Caldwell (New York: Routledge, 2009).
10. See Toby Miller et al., Global Hollywood (London: British Film Institute, 2002).
11. On the "dues-paying culture" see especially Erin Hill, "Hollywood Assistanting," in Production Studies.