Information Technology and the World of Work

Compilations of scholarly essays are often written by members of a particular school of thought, whose purpose is to flesh out an area of theory or methodology. Information Technology and the World of Work takes a different approach: these essays are written by diverse voices, unified in their interest in the common theme of technology and the changing workplace. The authors goals are to present perspectives that raise as many questions as they answer, and which are accessible to a broad audience. Written with the intent of beginning an important discussion of these issues, this volume should provide an impetus for others to make their own contribution to the emerging dialogue on technology in the modern workplace.

1: Introduction; 2: The School of Hard Cyber Knocks: NEA's Experience; 3: Challenges and Opportunities: Unions Confront the New Information Technologies; 4: E-Voice: How Information Technology is Shaping Life within Unions; 5: Today's Unions as Tomorrow's CyberUnions: Labor's Newest Hope; 6: Information Technology: The Threat to Unions; 7: Workers as Cyborgs: Labor and Networked Computers; 8: Solidarity.com? Class and Collective Action in the Electronic Village; 9: How New Lawyers Use E-Voice to Drive Firm Compensation: The "Greedy Associates" Phenomenon *; 10: An Identity Perspective on the Propensity of High-Tech Talent to Unionize; 11: The Use of Information Technology in a Strike; 12: Privacy, Technology, and Conflict: Emerging Issues and Action in Workplace Privacy; 13: Privacy and Profitability in the Technological Workplace; 14: Employee E-Mail and Internet Use: Canadian Legal Issues