Journal article
CYBERUNIONISM: Getting Labor Online
New labor forum, v 15(1), pp 95-101
01 Apr 2006
Abstract
The labor movement is now coming to recognize that the use of the Internet, when in combination with personal tools such as home visits and shop floor chats, can be an effective tool in both day-to-day decision making and meeting the long term goals of organizing. Among other advantages, they see the opportunity that interactivity offers for improved contact between officers and members, the 24/7 circulation of labor news, the availability of non-labor resources for members, and, overall, the branding of organized labor as a "smart" high-tech user, a player to reckon with in the Information Age. the international solidarity section of the website of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), focuses on global solidarity-its home page features an excellent interactive tool which shows the difference in buying power between two people working the same jobs in the United States and Mexico.
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- Title
- CYBERUNIONISM: Getting Labor Online
- Creators
- Art Shostak
- Publication Details
- New labor forum, v 15(1), pp 95-101
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705358004721