Information Technology and the World of Work

Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This volume specifically examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have created.

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