News media representations of the Trade Union Act (2016) and their links to liberal theory

• Vanesa Coscia ^[1] ; Jack Ravenhill ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Argentina

     
  2. [2] Birmingham City University

     Birmingham City University

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Cuadernos de relaciones laborales, ISSN-e 1988-2572, ISSN 1131-8635, Vol. 42, Nº 1, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Monográfico: Nuevos trabajos y nuevas identidades), págs. 195-210
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/crla.83820
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Representaciones mediáticas de la Ley de Sindicatos (2016) en el Reino Unido y sus vinculaciones con las teorías liberales
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  • español

    En este artículo se presenta de qué manera son representados en un conjunto de medios digitales ingleses algunos conceptos de dos influyentes corrientes del liberalismo: el nuevo liberalismo y el neoliberalismo, a partir del análisis de la cobertura mediática otorgada a la ley de sindicatos de 2016. Para ello se analizan un conjunto de noticias publicadas en los sitios digitales de The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Sky News, y BBC News. Para sistematizar el análisis se construyeron tres ejes temáticos: a) Democracia, ley y orden; b) derechos civiles y laborales; c) metáforas militares, privilegios y sindicatos.

  • English

    This paper explores how concepts from two influential strands of liberalism, new liberalism and neoliberalism, are represented in a sample of online media articles by analysing news coverage of the Trade Union Act (2016). Conceptually, a cultural studies perspective is adopted; methodologically, a social semiotic analysis is applied to a sample of internet news items published on the websites of The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Sky News, and BBC News. To systematise the analysis, three thematic axes were constructed: a) Democracy, Law and Order; b) Civil and Labour Rights; c) Military Metaphors, Privileges and Trade Unions.

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