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

by Shostak,Arthur B

• ISBN13: 9780765608031
• ISBN10: 0765608030
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

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	(24)
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 a 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 Lee
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. Laskonis
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 Wash Tech/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