Management, technology and work in commercial broadcasting, c. 1979-98

This article explores the relationship between management strategy, technol ogical change nod collective bargaining in the British commercial televisio n industry. The demanning and deskilling potential of digital production te chnologies remained largely untapped until the second half of the 1980s. Th e termination of national collective bargaining that had regulated minimum crewing levels was the watershed in terms of work organisation.