CYBER RESOURCES AND LINKS

FOR LABOUR ACTIVISTS

Here are a set of Links to the labour movement on the WWW. Currently the labour movement on the net is young, vital and growing.

Internationalism is taking on a whole new meaning as workers link to each other, informing one and another of their struggles.We are building global solidarity around struggles that only a year or two ago would have been a local issue.

Several articles on the Labour movement's use of the Internet/Infobahn are included. As well there are critical articles demystifying the information highway and global economics.

Of course no set of links would be complete without a list of other left / progressive pages on the net.

This page was originally created in 1995 and some of the articles are dated from then. More current articles can be found at: LABOUR NET CANADA Click on RESEARCH on the Index page.

Eugene W. Plawiuk SEPT. 1999

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HOW LABOUR USES THE INTERNET

Electronic Journal of Sociology

Where is North American Automobile Production Headed?: Low-Wage Lean Production Carl Dassbach Department of Social Sciences Michigan Technological University

THE WITHERING OF TRADE UNION PATRIARCHY

The Dialectic of Knowledge-in-Production: Value Creation in Late Capitalism and the Rise of Knowledge-Centered Production

CMS Releases Landmark Study of Socially Engaged Internet Users Study Finds Vast, But Largely Untapped Potential

ARLINGTON, VA -- A first-ever study of internet users' interest in engaging with charities and advocacy groups online reveals a vast, but largely untapped potential for using new technologies to mobilize people for social change. This is the principal conclusion of a study released today by CMS Interactive, a division of Craver, Mathews, Smith & Co. (CMS).

Labor Unions and the Internet

Suzanne Cohen & Deborah Joseph, two reference librarians at the Catherwood Library, have produced a significant, new accomplishment in Internet service. With extensive links to topics of interest to Labor Unions, this site is an invaluable and instructive tool for all union members, officers, and staff.

Network Access, Skills, and Equity in the Workplace: Polarization in Social Policy

Frank Stuart Symons Telework Program, Lanark Communications Network, Inc.1

  • Indicators of Permanence in Workspace Features: Perceived Importance and Relationship to Workspace Satisfaction

    Sherry Devereaux Ferguson & Hilary Horan University of Ottawa Alexandra Maureen Ferguson Boston University

    THE WORLD IS OUR PICKET LINE:

    Labour Uses the Internet to Challenge Globalization

    by Eugene Plawiuk

    published in the Parkland Post (Summer 1998)

    Journal of the Parkland Institute

  • Computer-linked Social Movements and the Global Threat to Capitalism,

    By Harry Cleaver, January 1999

  • Globalization And Class Struggle

    by Neil Fettes

    WORKERS ON THE WWW UNITE

    Labour News Article by Eugene Plawiuk, May 1996

    THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR MOVEMENT AND THE INTERNET

    by Eric Lee

    1998 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

    Trade Unions, homosexuality and work

    THIRD WORLD WORKERS AND THE INTERNET

    Index of background articles for Solinet Conference on computerization and struggles in the newly industrializing world.

    LABOUR EDUCATION ON THE WWW

    By Jeff Taylor, Athabasca University, Labour Studies

    CMC NETZINE SPECIAL ISSUE ON LABOUR ON THE NET

    THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY AND THE CANADIAN LABOUR MOVEMENT

    By Marc Belanger, CUPE/SOLINET

    THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT AND THE INTERNET

    By Marie Dancsok, European Labour Studies

    POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE "NETWORK FOR A NEW CULTURE" by Chaz Bufe

    INFOWEEK 1994

    Workers On The Net, Unite! Labor goes online to organize, communicate, and strike

    GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORKING

    Technological Opportunities and Human Challenges

    WOMEN ON THE WWW Women activists in cyber space

    COMPUTERS AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IFWEA 1993

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    What can I say, we need some balance here:

    LUDDITES ON LINE

    With this current global-technology-love-in, it's important to remain critical.

    And to have some laughs.

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    CRITICAL VIEWS OF

    info highway sign

    THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY

    &

    THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

    Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) Worldview

    Robert E. Babe University of Ottawa & Concordia University

    Financial Warfare

    By Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa

    Cybernetic Capitalism:

    Information, Technology, Everyday Life

    Frictionless Capitalism

    Business strategys for using the Information Highway

    Information Capitalism

    And the struggle for privacy by Robert Kling

    The Crucible Of Radical Capitalism

    How the Information Revolution will transform the politics of power. A right wing libertarian article

    Bibliography of Critical Articles on the Infobahn

    On Line links to articles from the University of Binghampton Library

    @ Home: Virtual Domesticity A Critical De-construction of Web Culture

    Intersections on the Information Highway

    Canadian Teachers Federation on technology, education and society

    CPU ISSUE #13 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

    This issue includes an excellent article by David Noble

    Deep Blues: Computerization and the Future Of the Workplace By Charlie Bertsch

    Bad Subjects, Issue # 25, March 1996

    Authoritarian Responses to Information Technology by Roger Clarke

    Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace By Sherry Turkle, The American Prospect no. 24 (Winter 1996): 50-57

    Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices By Robert Kling

    The Cybernetic Revolution and the Crisis of Capitalism

    By Jerry Harris and Carl Davidson

    The "Information Superhighway" and its Discontents" by Daniel Brandt

    The Sociology of Culture in Computer-Mediated Communication An Initial Exploration

    by Elizabeth Lane Lawley

    Corporate Domination of the WWW Cybermall or Global Town Hall?

    The Next Stage of Capitalism The Hypermedia Manifesto

    Media Freedom: From Gutenberg to Cyberspace by Richard Barbrook

    Electronic Democracy Politics in Cyberspace by Richard Barbrook

    Telecos and the Info Highway

    Critical Theory: The Political Economy Of Virtual Reality: Pan-Capitalism

    The Center for Democracy and Technology

    COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION WARFARE

    POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR ACTIVISTS ON THE WWW

    GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER

    While now using the moniker, Stratfor.com, the company has more historically be known as Stratfor, Inc. and before that Strategic Forecasting. A private intelligence company serving business globally, Stratfor, Inc., founded in 1995 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was started by now former faculty and students of Louisiana State University, associated with the Center for Geopolitical Studies.

  • The Emergence of Communications Study--Psychological Warfare or Scientific Thoroughfare?

    William Buxton Concordia University

    Public Opinion: Construction and Persuasion

    Anne-Marie Gingras with Jean-Pierre Carrier Université Laval

    Internet Bureaucracy and Empire by Jesse Hirsh

    Institute For The Advanced Study Of Information Warfare (IASIW)

    Home Page for information on Intelligence Agencies and Military uses of the Internet

    Intelligence and CounterIntelligence Links on the Web

    excellent resource from the Korean Weekly Web

    Information War and Cyberspace Security

    Rand Research Review, November 1995

    Advanced Displays:

    Windows into Information Warfare

    Big Brother Covets the Internet by Daniel Brandt

    The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle by Harry Cleaver

    Strategic Assessment: The Internet

    Prepared by Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict(Policy Planning)

    Internet As Political Weapons

    Corporate Intelligence Agency Controls Internet Access

    Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 96/97

    New Zealand and the Global Intelligence Network on the Internet

    Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 96/97

    Who Is Reading Your E-Mail? Fortune Magazine, January 1997

    Information Warfare on the Internet by Leah Klearman

    MediaFilter Left Wing Counter Intelligence On the Web

    Infowar Info War Home Page

    Computers, Internet, Hackers, Intelligence and Military Use of the Web

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    THE LEFT WING OF THE WEB

    This is the ULTIMATE site for links, check it out. JAYS PROGRESSIVE PAGES

    THE CHEZ GUEVERA CYBER CAFE

    Of course Che, is spelled wrong, it was meant to be.

    NETIZEN PROGRESSIVE LINKS From Canada, Eh

    YA!BASTA Join the Zapatistas in combating the neo-liberal agenda

    BRIAN'S PROGRESSIVE PAGES Formerly known as the Left Side of the Web

    Will Brian ever update them as he promises?

    SOMAN'S REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST RESOURCE PAGES

    An impressive resource page by a 17 year old Swedish Socialist

    VIKINGLEGS'S GUIDE TO ALTERNATIVE MEDIA ON THE WEB

    From Manitoba comes this home page, which includes the section Radically Canadian.

    VikingLegs? I thought this belonged under alt.pagan, then I checked it out

    SOCIALISM NET a social gospel socialist site

    THE MEDIA COLLECTIVE 'Bringing Culture Back To Resistance'

    Another Canadian site. Home of the Anarchives

    WELCOME TO WWWOMEN! Sisters in Web Solidarity

    For those who say there are not enough women WWWactive

    AMERICAN ENGINEERS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

    It's true not all Engineers think Ayn Rand is the greatest writer of the 20th Century

    SOCIAL POLICY offers a progressive alternative to neo-liberalism,

    and coverage of the movements that work "beneath the radar" of the media

    WEBACTIVE is a weekly publication designed to offer progressive activists an up-to-date resource on the World Wide Web to find other organizations and individuals with similar values and interests. WebActive is a project of Progressive Networks, the makers of RealAudio audio-on-demand software for the Internet.

    You've been warned. No they didn't pay me to put them here!

    COPRPORATE WATCH

    Information & Research On Multinational Corporations

    Capitalism attempts to dominate the WWW.

    LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER

    Accumulation and it's Discontents. A Left Wing view of Wall $treet.

    A Great Site that arms you with facts to counter the corporate agenda.

    CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES

    Canada's foremost Left Wing Social Policy Think Tank.

    A welcome relief from all those right wing think tanks that dominate our political culture.

    CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS

    An excellent magazine now online with critical studies of popular culture, media,& communications from a left perspective

    MULTINATIONAL MONITOR

    An excellent journal on Multi & Trans national Corporations, current and back issues on line. Search engine all you need for corporate research

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    UPDATED OCTOBER 1999

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