Chapter 10: Complex Labor Relations in Latin American Television Industries
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- 10.1: Introduction
- Overview of the goals of this chapter: to explore the ways in which multinational corporations have approached Latin American indie television companies to create local programming, and the effect of this on labor conditions in these indies.
- 10.2: A Brief Overview of the Latin American Television Industry
- A brief history of the Latin American television industry, including nationally owned networks establishing their dominance early on and global conglomerates later attempting to expand into this market approaching local indies for the talent and labor needed to compete with the national networks.
- 10.3: Independents in the Contemporary Landscape of Television Industries
- Challenges faced by indie production houses in Latin American television, with a focus on the high level of control exerted by national networks on what projects are able to reach mass audiences.
- 10.4: Genre and Formats Division of Labor
- Labor considerations, including cost and the duration for which a production house will be employed, for different genres (in both fiction and nonfiction) and formats of television.
- 10.5: The Asymmetrical Relationship Between Indie Houses and Television Networks
- The dependency of indie studios on major national or multinational networks for funding, and the differing levels of creative control exerted by these two network types on the studios. Focuses on the case of the indie studio Argos in Mexico.
- 10.6: Labor Struggles, Accommodations, and Strategies of Survival
- Examining the staffing patterns, labor conditions, and emotional/artistic connections common in these indie studios.
- 10.7: Conclusion
- The precarity of working at indie production houses, as shown by the emergence of “indies” owned by or closely tied to transnational conglomerates and the diverse strategies needed by other indies to financially survive. Narratives common within these indies that frame this precarity as emblematic of freedom, creativity, and innovation.