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Cyberunion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology (Issues in Work and Human Resources)
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Author: Arthur B. Shostak, Daniel J. B. Mitchell
List Price: $34.95
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ISBN: 0765604639
Publisher: M.E.Sharpe (August, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 392,452
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
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.
Rating: 1 out of 5
CyberUnion not for the cyberSkilled
This book seems tailored to the Web novice. And it's not very insightful about unions either, relying mostly on old platitudes and even a 1947 book by C. Wright Mills to discuss the bureaucratic obstacles to computer-driven change.I have designed a few simple Web pages and been involved in Web planning at my union. To me, this book offers little in the way of new insights.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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.
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