The Cyberunion Handbook: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology,9780765608024

The Cyberunion Handbook: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology

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ISBN13: 9780765608024
ISBN10: 0765608022
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In his original book on CyberUnions, Shostak presented a bold plan for unions to develop a more significant role in the 21st century by adopting four strategic aids -- futuristics, innovations, services, and traditions (F-I-S-T) -- knit together by cutting-edge InfoTech resources. The CyberUnion Handbook expands on the F-I-S-T model with practical, how-to information and advice on every aspect of using technology to advance Labor's interests. It looks at gains and setbacks in pioneering efforts to create CyberUnions, highlights relevant websites, and includes interviews with key CyberUnion advocates. The book also reviews overseas efforts for transferable lessons, and pays special attention to the AFL-CIO campaign to ensure Labor's advances in the use of InfoTech.

Table of Contents

Notes on URLs
Series Editor's Foreword xiv
Daniel J.B. Mitchell
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction 3(7)
Cyber Birth: The Struggles of a Local Going Online
10(3)
Steven J. Lelinski
On the Border of CyberUnionism: Lessons from Local 1613
13(10)
Joseph N. Dassaro
Technology Evens the Playing Field
23(4)
Lawrence R. Smoot, Jr.
I. SURVEYING THE FIELD 27(27)
Cyber Drives: Organizing, Bargaining, and Mobilizing-Downloading ``E-Strategies'' for 21st-century Union Action
29(6)
Laureen Lazarovici
Info Zap! PDAs in the Hands of a Union Activist
35(4)
Karin Hart
Corporate Surveillance: Monitoring Your Monitor
39(3)
Nancy Bupp
What Unions Can Learn from Nonprofits About Using the Internet
42(8)
Mark Friedman
Five Lessons from Union Computer Use in Sweden
50(4)
Gunnar Zetterstrom
II. HOW TO GET STARTED 54(31)
Nine Rules for Good Technology
57(4)
Stephen Downes
Getting On and Getting Off: Roadblocks on the Information Superhighway
61(6)
Edward Hertenstein
Taking More Control of Technology Issues
67(5)
Nancy Bupp
``But the Computer Salesman Said...''-What All That Stuff Means
72(6)
Brandon Weber
Avoiding Shams, Scams, and Spam as You Journey the Information Superhighway
78(7)
Bill Ringle
III. HOW TO MANAGE E-MAIL AND LIST SERVERS 85(30)
How-To's and Why Not's: A Quick Guide for Union E-Tool Use
86(12)
Donna Jablonski
Union and Employee Access to Employer E-Mail Systems Under Federal Labor Law
98(6)
Stuart W Davidson
Eric M. Fink
Lessons from Pioneering in Union Uses of the Internet
104(4)
Ed Czarnecki
The MODEM Experience: The Moderator's Views on Some Questions
108(5)
Brian Mitchell
Cheryl Mitchell
The Natural Life Cycle of Mailing Lists
113(2)
Kat Nagel
IV. HOW TO PROVIDE A WEB SITE 115(24)
Unix? Linux? How Do I Even Begin to Create My Own Site?
117(3)
Matt Seng
What a Web Site Should Offer
120(6)
Linda Mathews
Mike Wisniewski
Crucial Questions for Union Webmasters
126(2)
Mindy Pines
Web Site Lessons
128(9)
Linda Mathews
Mike Wisniewski
Finding and Holding a Web Audience
137(2)
Robert Kolb
V. HOW TO BECOME A CYBERUNION 139(5)
Bridging the Cyber Gap
142(2)
Peggy Myrie
VI. HOW TO EMPLOY FUTURISTICS 144(13)
Seven Guidelines from a Futures Course for Unionists
150(5)
Arthur B. Shostak
A New Society Gives Birth to a New Union
155(2)
Bob Marino
VII. WHAT INNOVATIONS? 157(15)
Revitalizing a Union Through Cyberspace
160(4)
Larry Johnson
Virtually Meeting: How the Internet Can Open Up Union Meetings to All the Members
164(3)
Sam Stark
Beyond the Web Site: The Experience of LabourStart's Labour Newswire
167(5)
Eric Gee
VIII. WHAT SERVICES? 172(20)
I Came, I Saw, I Digitized-A Union Editor's Guide to Electronic Design and Layout
175(5)
Brandon Weber
The Virtual Union Hall
180(8)
T. Santora
A Clipboard, a Cell Phone, and a Laptop: What Every Organizer Needs
188(4)
Will Collette
IX. HOW TO HONOR TRADITIONS 192(23)
Designing and Delivering Internet Instruction to Labor Unions: A Practical Guide
196(15)
Deborah Joseph
The Power of Digital Media and Technology for Working People!
211(4)
Steve Zeltzer
X. PROMOTING UNION DEMOCRACY 215(27)
A Simple List Serve and Union Democracy
217(2)
Charles H. Letskonis
One Union's Leap into Cyberdemocracy
219(3)
Rick Inclima
Matters of Human Debate: Using the Internet for Union Democracy
222(20)
Matt Noyes
XI. PROMOTING UNION MILITANCY 242(13)
Using Cyberspace to Enhance the CyberUnion
244(5)
Anthony W. Zumpetta
How the Internet Sustained a Strike
249(2)
Paul Andrews
Picketing Cyberspace
251(4)
William Puette
XII. PROMOTING ORGANIZING 255(18)
How a Former Union Organizer Accidentally Sparked a Nationwide Election Protest Movement, All via the Internet
258(3)
Zack Exley
Look for the CyberUnion Label
261(3)
Thomas James Katona
The WashTech/CWA Project: A Work in Progress
264(5)
Danielle D. van Jaarsveld
Plugged In, Turned On Unionism
269(4)
John Klusinske
EPILOGUE: AND TOMORROW? 273(26)
Unions and the Web: Where to Now?
276(4)
Peter Lewis
Labor Web-Site Reviews
280(19)
G. Peter Shostak
Karen Chamberlain
Arthur B. Shostak
Internet Resource Guide 299(28)
Nancy Bupp
Recommended Web Sites 327(6)
Nicole L. Whittaker
Annotated Bibliography 333(4)
Index 337(10)
Notes on the Editor and Contributors 347(10)
Books by the Editor 357

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