Several months ago, a local union affiliated to the Canadian Auto Workers waged a successful strike against a major employer. Email and the web proved essential to their success. According to an internal 16-page report…
You can also listen to this essay on Radio LabourStart or read it in print in next month’s issue of Labour Research. Seven Stories Press is a US publisher you probably never heard of. But…
Sometimes it really does just hit you. The Internet really does change the way we look at things. I was struck by this as I look back upon the recent tumultuous events in Haiti. Watching…
As I write these words, it’s becoming increasingly likely that John Kerry is going to be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 2004. I was looking at Kerry’s website the other day and was struck…
More than three million homes and businesses in the UK now have broadband access to the Internet, with 40,000 new connections being made every week. By the end of 2005, it should be possible to…
The sharing of information is fundamental to what we do in the trade union movement
The sharing of information is fundamental to what we do in the trade union movement
The sharing of information is fundamental to what we do in the trade union movement
The sharing of information is fundamental to what we do in the trade union movement
Way back in the early days of the Internet (in December 1996, to be exact), I noticed something new on the Amazon.com website. It was called an “affiliate program”. It offered websites something extraordinary: the…