This a draft outline prepared by Derek Blackadder for a book which we aim to get published sometime in the next year — it will be jointly authored by a number of us, and Derek, working together with Art Shostak and others, will be editing and coordinating this project.<\/p>\n
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Title: <\/span><\/span><\/span>Online Unions: Organizing in the 21<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>st<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span> Century<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n Introduction: How and Why Unions Are Failing to Make Effective Use of the \u2018New\u2019 Media<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n Part 1: The Dark Ages<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The BBS Period<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SOLINET<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n C.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The First Web Generation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Part 2: The LabourStart Experience<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 History and Structure \u2013 Why LabourStart Has Been Able to Do What it Does as Well as it Does<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How LS Campaigns – design, relationships with unions\/GUFs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n C.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Services to Union – newswires etc., the contests, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n D.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What Union Partners Think and Why They Use LabourStart Rather Than Developing Their Own Capacities<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Part 3: Going Global<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Changing Role of GUFs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Transnational Union Campaigns<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n C. How the Internet Fits…or Not<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n D. Worker-to-Worker Level International Solidarity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Part 4: Unions and the Internet<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why is Your Union Less Interactive Than Your Curling Club?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Going Where No Union Has Gone Before: COSATU\u2019s Online<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n C. Online Campaigns<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n D.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Online Organizing<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n E.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Online Education<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n F.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Use of Commercial Sites and Facilities (FB, Google, Second Life etc.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n G. On the South Side of the Digital Divide: Does the Mobile Phone Mean the Revolution Will be a Flash Mob?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n Part 5: The Unofficial Stories<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n A. Digital Rats: Self-organizing All Around Us<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n B. Insurgencies on the Net: Lessons From Internal Union Struggles<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n C. Are Workers Leapfrogging Union Structures?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n Part 6: What Our Allies are Up To<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n A.\tAmnesty<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n B.\tClean Clothes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n C.\tILRF<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Part 7: The Future<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The End of Face-to-Face?\u00a0 Is Cyber Unionism Possible? Desireable? Review of experiences of Second Life etc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is There Life After E-mail?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n C.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Internet Neutrality for Unions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n D.\u00a0\u00a0 Union 2.0. Can Unions Adapt? What Would a User-generated Union Look Like?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/span><\/p>\n Conclusion <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This a draft outline prepared by Derek Blackadder for a book which we aim to get published sometime in the next year — it will be jointly authored by a number of us, and Derek, working together with Art Shostak and others, will be editing and coordinating this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}