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Sleeping giants? Fired workbloggers and labour organisation
Author(s) -
Schoneboom Abigail
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-005x.2010.00254.x
Subject(s) - function (biology) , political science , public relations , sociology , political economy , biology , evolutionary biology
This paper argues that the Waterstone's fired blogger incident performed a labour organising function in terms of garnering pro‐labour media attention and encouraging critical discourse. Looking at the blog's distinctive features and evolution, it evaluates the strengths, limitations and potential for recurrence of similar high‐profile incidents.