ABSTRACT
This chapter calls for a more multi-valent engagement with screen media labor that weaves the macro-level complexities of flexible capitalism into the quotidian, even mundane, realities of how a vast network of screen media workers actually work to sustain a mobile regime of accumulation. This approach makes explicit how the division of labor is structured across geography and how power operates within and across those divisions. It also pays attention to work routines and working conditions that now constitute the contemporary “workplace” for film and television workers. These are not discrete tasks but constitute an integrated frame through which industry scholars can interrogate the operations of global capital without resorting to a level of abstraction when discussing the consequences of structural change on the personal and professional livelihoods of screen media workers.
