Cyberunion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology

by Arthur B. Shostak and Arthur B Shostack

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765604639
• ISBN13: 9780765604637
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Review From a Cyber-Unionist

This book has effectively established the "bar" for cyber-unionism. Some might complain that the book is not detailed enough or technical; however, Mr. Shostak is the first author to formally challenge existing paradigms and move unions to action.As a student at the National Labor College, Vice President and CIO of my union, and webmaster for our site, I recommend this book as a must read for any unionist who is attempting to implement technology in their union. Actual implementation methodologies and philosophies should be forthcoming in his next book which I am eagerly anticipating.

An extremely useful tool for the union activist

This book gives you the particulars as well as the rationale for trade union activists to be active in the use of computers. It is fair to say that already the book is having an inflence on how union organizers function in this technolical age. Boeing employees almost all of whom are highly computer literate are doing card checks, arranging for workers to respond on line to fill out cards and to then keep them informed about the campaign. the Union at Boeing in Wichita already has organized 1,300 workers in this fashion. This book has the potential to profoundly change the way in which unions reach out to potential members.

A "must read" for the union activist!

This book is for the serious unionist who is searching for better avenues for getting his message out. Art uses interviews with rank and file union members who are actively using computers and the internet as he suggests ways unions should be making use of the information highway and technology. A "must read" for union leaders who are wondering what all the fuss is all about as well as for those who do.

CyberUnion: A Blueprint for Unions to Utilize Technology

In the new book 'CyberUnion', author Art Shostak lays the ground work for how Labor Unions currently use and how they may in the future use technology to revitalize and further America's most important social movement, the Labor Movement. I could find no other source that effectively covered this subject in as much depth as 'CyberUnion' does. This book is a must-read I highly recommend for every unionist concerned with the future of working families. Our futures may depend on it.

Review from Gary Cortes, Union Jobs Clearinghouse

"The first truly definitive 'must read' paradigm of Labor's participation in the evolution of cyber communications."