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Author Shostack, Arthur B

Title CyberUnion : Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology
Published Armonk : Taylor and Francis, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Please Fasten Your Seatbelts""; Part I. Computers and Labor; Chapter 1. Using Computers as a Servicing Aid; Reading 1: How a Personal Computer Can Enhance Union Political Action; Chapter 2. Using Computers as an Organizing Aid; Reading 2: Sensing the Speed Picking Up; Part II. Variations on the Theme; Chapter 3. Cyber Naught: Paving Over the Cowpath; Reading 3: Social Change Prospects for Unionism; Chapter 4. Cyber Drift: Going Nowhere
Reading 4: Searching for the WayChapter 5. Cyber Gain: Getting with It; Reading 5: Futuristics and Unions: The AFGE Experience; Part III. Cyberunion: Informatics Plus; Chapter 6. CyberUnion: Promoting Power; Reading 6: The World of Tomorrow; Chapter 7. Futuristics: Promoting Alternatives; Reading 7: Teaching Futuristics; Chapter 8. Innovations: Promoting Risk-Taking; Reading 8: What Must You Know to Be Employed in the Year 2025?; Chapter 9. Services: Promoting Ties; Reading 9: A Virtual Office for Operating Engineers, IUOE Local 148; Chapter 10. Traditions: Promoting Roots
Reading 10: Bright Future for Unions?Part IV. With a Little Help from Our Friends: Build It, and They Will Come; Chapter 11. Change-Agents: Stateside; Reading 11: Women Unionists: ""We Can Do It!""; Chapter 12. Change-Agents: Overseas; Chapter 13. Choices We Must Make; Reading 13: Virtual Corporations and American Labor Unions: So Many Unknowns, So Much Potential; Epilogue: Under Construction; Sources; Cyber Sources; Appendix: Survey; Index; About the Author
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ISBN 9781315292243
1315292246