Adam Tooze: The Shifting Economics of Hollywood
Changes in technology and antitrust laws are driving the strike by writers and actors.
The question of how to fairly divide up the tens of billions of dollars of revenue earned by Hollywood each year has set a large part of its labor force—actors and writers—against production studios, leading to the industry’s largest strikes in recent memory. At the heart of these disputes are some underlying legal and technological changes in production and distribution—changes that, some argue, are responsible for the deterioration of both working conditions and the quality of cultural products.
Cameron Abadi is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @CameronAbadi
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