{"product_id":"chokepoint-capitalism-how-big-tech-and-big-content-captured-creative-labor-markets-and-how-well-win-them-back-9780807007068","title":"Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eA call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCorporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)--or both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChokepoint Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we're in a new era of \"chokepoint capitalism,\" with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. All workers are weakened by this, but the problem is especially well-illustrated by the plight of creative workers. From Amazon's use of digital rights management and bundling to radically change the economics of book publishing, to Google and Facebook's siphoning away of ad revenues from news media, and the Big Three record labels' use of inordinately long contracts to up their own margins at the cost of artists, chokepoints are \u003ci\u003eeverywhere\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy analyzing book publishing and news, live music and music streaming, screenwriting, radio and more, Giblin and Doctorow deftly show how powerful corporations construct \"anti-competitive flywheels\" designed to lock in users and suppliers, make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and suppliers to accept unfairly low prices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the book's second half, Giblin and Doctorow then explain how to batter through those chokepoints, with tools ranging from transparency rights to collective action and ownership, radical interoperability, contract terminations, job guarantees, and minimum wages for creative work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChokepoint Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to workers of all sectors to unite to help smash these chokepoints and take back the power and profit that's being heisted away--before it's too late.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807007068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42303930892469,"sku":"9780807007068","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ff9e84a7-cb63-4995-9ab6-a43374ece4d0.jpg?v=1658843684","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/chokepoint-capitalism-how-big-tech-and-big-content-captured-creative-labor-markets-and-how-well-win-them-back-9780807007068","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}