[Air-l] Union use of the Web

[Wainer Lusoli]

Hi Sherida -

You really want to look at Richard Freeman's recent work on unions and
the Internet, funded under the UK eSociety programme
(http://www.london.edu/e-society/Projects/projects.html). Also, consider
Anne-Marie Green's work (http://www.geocities.com/e_collectivism/).

Some refs:

Darlington, R. (2001) 'The Creation of the E-Union: The Use of ICT by
British Trade Unions'. Paper presented to New Economy Conference,
Deutsche Postwerkschaft, Berlin, 1 February. Available at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/rogerdarlington/E-union.html 

Diamond, W. and R. Freeman (2001) 'Will Unionism Prosper in Cyberspace?
The promise of the Internet for employee organisation', National Bureau
of Economic Research Working Paper No. W8483.

Greene, A-M., J. Hogan and M. Grieco (2000) 'E-Collectivism: Emergent
Opportunities for Renewal', in B. Stanford-Smith and P. K. Kidd (eds.)
E-Business: Key Applications, Processes and Technologies. Omsha: IOS
Press.

Greene, A-M., J. Hogan and M. Grieco (2001) 'E-collectivism and
Distributed Discourse: New Opportunities for Trade Union Democracy',
Paper presented to the TUC/LSE Conference on Unions and the Internet,
London 12th May.

Hodkinson, S. (2003) 'Problems @ Labour: Towards Net Internationalism?',
in Gibson, Rachel K., Roemelle, A. and Stephen J. Ward (eds.) Electronic
Democracy: Political Organisations, Mobilisation and Participation
Online. Routledge: London (forthcoming).

Hogan, J. and M. Grieco (1999) 'Trade unions on line: technology,
transparency and bargaining power'. Paper presented at a Workshop on
Cyber Ontology at the University of North London, October 1999.
Available at http://www.geocities.com/unionsonline 

Lee, E. (1997) The Labour Movement and the Internet: the New
Internationalism. Pluto Press: London.

Lee, E. (2000) 'How the Internet is Changing Unions'. Online paper,
available at http://www.labourstart.org  


Steve Ward and I had a paper two years ago on the subect, Dinosaurs in
Cyberspace? British Trade Unions and the Internet.  European Journal of
Communication, 2003 18(2), pp. 147-179. A preliminary version is on our
site www.ipop.org.uk then go to 'results'.

Anyone else?

Cheers

Wainer


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Wainer Lusoli
Research Fellow @ ESRI
University of Salford

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> [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf 
> Of Sherida Ryan
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> Subject: [Air-l] Union use of the Web
> 
> 
> Dear AoIRers,
> 
> I am a Ph.D. student working on a Social Sciences and 
> Humanities Research 
> Council of Canada project.  The project is a union and 
> university research 
> alliance that is examining the impact and the obstacles of socially 
> responsible investment of union pension funds and the role 
> and educational 
> needs of union pension fund trustees.
> 
> Central to our project is the ongoing development of a 
> website to provide 
> accessible informal education for unionists interested in 
> pension fund 
> investment. As part of the website, we are also investigating the 
> possibility of developing an online forum for labour pension 
> fund activists.
> 
> I am looking for literature and research examples that address union 
> activist use of websites and online forums. Specifically I am 
> interested in 
> how the labour movement has used the Internet for both formal 
> and informal 
> learning and any research that explores the development of online 
> communities of practice both within specific unions as well 
> as across the 
> labour sector.
> 
> Any resources would be most helpful.
> Thank you,
> 
> Sherida Ryan
> Adult Education,
> Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University 
> of Toronto