Chapter 7: Transnational Crews and Postsocialist Precarity – Globalizing Screen Media Labor in Prague
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- 7.1: Introduction
- Overview of the chapter focus: analysis of film and television industry labor issues in postsocialist Prague, including the segregation of work cultures, barriers against transsectoral knowledge transfers, and the two-tier production split between international and domestic production.
- 7.2: Localized Learning in Global Production Networks
- Distinguishing this chapter's focus on local reasons for labor precarity from the U.S.-dominated neo-Marxist analysis of international production. The process by which Czech workers learn foreign production practices, and the three dimensions of localized learning proposed by Malmberg and Maxwell.
- 7.3: Globalizing a Postsocialist Production World – Producers and Production Management as Cultural Interface
- The rise of Prague's foreign services industry since the 1990s. The emphasis on transfer of organizational knowledge and managerial, rather than technical, skills from overseas producers to Czech workers.
- 7.4: Multiple Globalizations
- The limitations of knowledge transfer as a result of interaction between Czech and overseas personnel, including the lack of local production reshaping due to the lack of hiring of Czech above-the-line workers or department heads, the limited upward mobility of Czech workers in transnational productions, and the lack of production services companies branching out to original productions.
- 7.5: Career Patterns and Precarity in Transnational Project Networks
- Contrasting career patterns: American-born production managers in Prague are fast-tracked compared to their counterparts in Hollywood, while Czech production workers rarely gain promotions to higher creative positions, build internationally known career, or take part in prestigious domestic projects.
- 7.6: Conclusion – A Two-Tier, Departmentalized Work World
- The importance of a balanced approach to modeling globalization, that considers knowledge transfers, learning effects, and cultural intermediaries, in analyzing labor issues of the Czech screen industries.