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Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age – The Writers Guild (WGA) Strike and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Stalemate (Entertainment Labor Unions)

It was a Hollywood meltdown …

The Writers Guild went on strike in 2007. The big issue: fees for programs released on new media such as the Internet. The strike was settled one hundred turbulent days later – but then the Screen Actors Guild spiraled out of control, unwilling to accept the same terms but unable to muster a second strike. As the national economy collapsed, idled writers and actors sacrificed millions of dollars in film and TV wages in order to pursue pennies in new media

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The Politics of Glamour: Ideology and Democracy in the Screen Actors Guild

Rarely are the off-screen lives of actors examined for evidence of deep thinking or good citizenship. Still more rarely do the internal workings of labor unions attract public scrutiny. Nevertheless, as David Prindle shows in his examination of democracy in the Screen Actors Guild, this actors’ union has for over 50 years been an arena for idealistic, yet intense and hardboiled political maneuvering.
    In The Politics of Glamour, readers become aware of the seriousness and polit

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2012 SCREEN ACTORS GUILD PROGRAM Sags awards

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2012 SCREEN ACTORS GUILD SWAG GALA BAG SAG PROGRAM DAVIS SPENSER PLUMMBER WHITE

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