Cyberunion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology

ISBN-13: 9780765604620 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 248 str.

Arthur B. Shostak; Daniel J. B. Mitchell

Opis

Key players in organized labour in the USA and abroad are busy modernizing their communications and making creative and effective use of computers and other technology. The author of this book argues that the road to CyberUnion has begun and that those unions are ensuring a future strength.

Spis treści

Introduction: "Please Fasten Your Seatbelts" PART I. COMPUTERS AND LABOR Chapter 1. Using Computers as a Servicing Aid Chapter 2. Using Computers as an Organizing Aid PART II. VARIATIONS ON THE THEME Chapter 3. Cyber Naught: Paving Over the Cowpath Chapter 4. Cyber Drift: Going Nowhere Chapter 5. Cyber Gain: Getting with It PART III. CYBERUNION: INFORMATICS PLUS Chapter 6. CyberUnion: Promoting Power Chapter 7. Futuristics: Promoting Alternatives Chapter 8. Innovations: Promoting Risk-Taking Chapter 9. Services: Promoting Ties PART IV: With a Little Help from Our Friends: Build it, and they will Come Chapter II Change-Agents Stateside Chapter 12 Change-Agents: Overseas Chapter 13 Choices we must Make.

O autorze

Arthur B. Shostak is a professor of sociology at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1967 to date). He previously taught at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania (1961-67). Shostak is also an adjunct sociologist on the faculty of the National Labor Relations College at the AFL-CIO George Meany Center for Labor Studies, Silver Springs, Maryland (1975 to date). In 1998 he was appointed Director of the Drexel Center for Employment Futures (DCEFTM), a university-based think tank devoted to exploring frontiers in tomorrow's world of work.