Papers, Articles and Chapters on Trade Unions and ICTs
British
trade unions have only relatively recently begun to reflect
on the potentiality of new information technologies to
reform and transform their methods and strategies of recruitment,
representation and mobilisation. The union movement can
make use of innovative and potentially effective forms
of organising; through the use of ICTs, including such
features as e-mail, web sites, chat rooms, bulletin boards,
and on-line application and voting mechanisms. Techniques
often continue to be based around more traditional forms,
such as face-to face recruitment, leafleting and newsletters.
Similarly, the academic industrial relations literature
has been slow to reflect or deliberate upon the organising
opportunities that global electronic adjacency offers
the trade union movement in terms of transparency, diffused
activism, activist resources and building solidarity.
Find below papers and presentations relating to the use
of ICTs by British Trade Unions.
E-collectivism:
Emergent Opportunities for Renewal
'E-Collectivism
and Distributed Discourse: New Opportunities for Trade
Union Democracy'
'E-Learning:
Reflections on the First TUC Women's Online Course'
'Oligarchic
Violence in Trade Unions: Challenges in Cyber-Space'
Unions
and the Internet: Prospects for Renewal
Organising
in the Information Age: Distributed Technology, Distributed
leadership, Distributed Identity, Distributed Discourse
Possibilities
for remote participation in trade unions: mobilising atypical
activists,
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