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題名 Social movement unionism or professionalism? The union movement of Taiwanese documentary makers
作者 劉昌德
Liu, Chang-de
貢獻者 新聞系
日期 2010.10
上傳時間 13-Jun-2014 16:56:21 (UTC+8)
摘要 Taiwanese documentaries have grown rapidly in terms of local consumption and production since the 2000s, despite the dominance of Hollywood in the local film market. However, most documentary workers still suffer from poor working conditions because of a lack of sufficient resources for local productions. In response to this situation, Taiwanese documentary makers founded a labour union in 2006 to protect their basic working rights. This paper describes this union movement as well as analysing the challenges that it encounters. These challenges include a very low degree of participation in unions among Taiwanese cultural workers, anti-union sentiment among professionals and freelancers and the `association-prone`, as opposed to `union-prone` nature of Taiwanese occupational unions. Despite these obstacles, the strong traditional linkages between Taiwanese documentary-makers and dissenting social and political movements has enabled the documentary workers` union to pursue a form of `social movement unionism`, which opens up opportunities for revitalisation even when there is a general decline of the trade union movement.
關聯 Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 4(2), 142-159
資料類型 article
dc.contributor 新聞系en_US
dc.creator (作者) 劉昌德zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Liu, Chang-deen_US
dc.date (日期) 2010.10en_US
dc.date.accessioned 13-Jun-2014 16:56:21 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 13-Jun-2014 16:56:21 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 13-Jun-2014 16:56:21 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/66705-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Taiwanese documentaries have grown rapidly in terms of local consumption and production since the 2000s, despite the dominance of Hollywood in the local film market. However, most documentary workers still suffer from poor working conditions because of a lack of sufficient resources for local productions. In response to this situation, Taiwanese documentary makers founded a labour union in 2006 to protect their basic working rights. This paper describes this union movement as well as analysing the challenges that it encounters. These challenges include a very low degree of participation in unions among Taiwanese cultural workers, anti-union sentiment among professionals and freelancers and the `association-prone`, as opposed to `union-prone` nature of Taiwanese occupational unions. Despite these obstacles, the strong traditional linkages between Taiwanese documentary-makers and dissenting social and political movements has enabled the documentary workers` union to pursue a form of `social movement unionism`, which opens up opportunities for revitalisation even when there is a general decline of the trade union movement.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 4(2), 142-159en_US
dc.title (題名) Social movement unionism or professionalism? The union movement of Taiwanese documentary makersen_US
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