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The globalisation of labour counter-coordination and unionism on the internet / guest editors: Margaret Greico, John Hogan and Miguel Martinez Lucio.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical Perspectives on International Business
- Critical perspectives on international business ; v. 1, no. 2/3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization.
- International economic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traditional trade union structures have been slow to realise the capabilities of new information technology in respect of the globalisation of labour. Yet the co-ordinative capabilities of international labour with the advent of the Internet are radically enhanced as the actions of workers in the international transport sector demonstrate.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Foreword; Introduction; The advent of open source unionism?; Union renewal, union strategy and technology; Globalisation, collective action and counter-coordination; Recovering experience, confirming identity, voicing resistance; The networked union? The internet as a challenge to trade union identity and roles; ICTs, distributed discourse and the territorialisation of labour: the case of Balkan trade unionism; Information and communications technology use in British unions; Unions and cyber-activism in South Africa; Epilogue
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-50937-6
- 9786610509379
- 1-84544-735-2
- OCLC:
- 191925908
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