CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Video Game Industry, User-Generated Content, Job Security
5 Jan 2020
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Pay: are people being paid enough, pay equality, minimum wage issues. Benefits: does your job contribute towards a pension plan, does it give you health or dental. Hours: having a work week that allows a work life balance. Job security: do you have guaranteed work. Labour issues in the communications industries: basic work conditions (pay, benefits, hours, safety, right to unionize) Impact of digitization and convergence, the lock out of the jean de montreal because with increasing convergence people are being asked to do the job of multiple people: concerns over the rise of unpaid immaterial labour (sheppard"s article) Impact of flexible labour/fluid workforce: don"t have a tremendous amount of job security but because there is such a large portion of: precarity and job security. Ea spouse: a blog post was made about the long hours within the video game industry, dives into the immaterial labour market.
