Informationism and the Gig Economy: Labour’s Digital Policy Fight for the 21st Century – A talk by Brian Dolber

Brian Dolber is Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos. He is a historian of media and the labour movement in the United States, and studies communications policymaking in the neoliberal, digital age. Dr. Dolber has been a longtime labour activist and served as staff for three different unions in the U.S. He is the author of Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and holds his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.