Session 1: 16.15 – 18.00

John Hogan and Peter Nolan,University of Hertfordshire and University of Leeds, UK Trade unions and the internet: present and future prospects

Craig Phelan, Editor of Labor History, UK The knights of labor and the open source tradition

Margaret Grieco,Cornell University, USA and Napier University, UK Patterns of labour, patterns of challenge: gender, voice and new information communication technologies in industrial relations
(Paper HERE
PowerPoint presentation HERE)

Session 2: 10.50 - 12.50

Valeria Pulignano, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Warwick University, UK International cooperations, trans-national restructuring and coordinative virtual networking in Europe

Miguel Martinez Lucio, Steve Walker and Pip Trevorrow, University of Bradford and Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Trade union renovation and co-ordination in Europe: the use of the internet and its impact on traditional structures

Herman Knudsen, Michael Whittal and Fred Huijgen, Aalborg University, Denmark, Nottingham Trent University, UK, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands European works councils and the problem of identity

Andreja Zivkovic and John Hogan, University of Hertfordshire, UK The time-space dynamics of collective mobilisation in the ”Information age”: the case of post-communist Balkan trade unionism

Session 3: 13.50 - 15.50

Jeff Hyman and Abigail Marks, University of Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt University, UK Frustrated ambitions: working in the knowledge economy

Richard Saundry, Mark Stuart and Valerie Antcliff, University of Central Lancashire and University of Leeds, UK Broadcasting discontent - freelancers, trade unions and the internet

Anne-Marie Greene, University of Warwick, UK Participants’ experiences of DAN: solidarity more real than imagined? (PowerPoint presentation HERE)

Session 4: 16.10 - 18.10

Stephen Little, and Margaret Grieco, Open University, UK, Cornell University, USA and Napier University, UK Big Pharma, international labour, social movements and the Internet: coordination and critical perspectives on international business (PowerPoint HERE)

John Hogan, Peter Nolan and Margaret Grieco, University of Hertfordshire, University of Leeds, UK Cornell University, USA and Napier University, UK Unions, technologies of coordination and the changing contours of globally distributed power

A Virtual Journey: Slovenian On-line History