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Rosati, Clayton. (Forthcoming). "Walkout NYC!." ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies.

ABSTRACT: New York City was abuzz with labor struggles in December 2008.  The most prominent of which were that of the Writers Guild of America (East), picketing as part of their nation-wide strike for a fair share of online and digital content “residuals.”  NYC-based shows like Letterman’s the Late Show, the Daily Show, and Saturday Night Live languished for months without their creative producers.  In December, though, another smaller intersecting struggle also erupted at one of the world’s largest media conglomerates, when Viacom’s vulnerable and (until then) unorganized “freelance” workers (known in-house as “permalance”) walked off the job.  The following comic and introduction present preliminary observations and themes from research conducted during this tumultuous time.

Rosati, Clayton and Mitchell, Don. (2009). “‘Live Monster: Black Friday and the All Consuming City.” Human Geography 2 (1).

Rosati, Clayton and Mitchell, Don. (2008). “It’s Black Friday and So the Wind Must Blow: Consumption, Culture, and the New City.” In Alejandro Mercado, Miriam Alfie and Graciela Martinez (Eds.) Encrucijadas, Encuentros y Divergencias en las Ciudades/Region de America del Norte. Centro de Estudios Sobre America del Norte, UNAM and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana- Cuajimalpa, Mexico.

Rosati, Clayton. (2007). “MTV: 360o of the Industrial Production of Culture.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32 (4): 556-575.

Rosati, Clayton. (2007). “Media Geographies: Towards a Spatial Politics of the Image.” Geography

Compass 32 (4): 556-575.

Mitchell, Don and Rosati, Clayton. (2006). "The Globalization of ‘Culture’: Geography and the Industrial Production of Culture.” In D. Conway and N. Heynen (Eds.) Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Resistance? New York, Routledge.