Arthur B Shostack

Cyberunion

Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shostak maps out a plan for organized labor to use the full range of information technology to transform its organizational culture, refine its focus, and re-invent its mission.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780765604620
• ISBN-10: 0765604620
• Artikelnr.: 21658521

Autorenporträt

Arthur B. Shostak is a professor of sociology at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1967 to date). He previously taught at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania (1961-67). Shostak is also an adjunct sociologist on the faculty of the National Labor Relations College at the AFL-CIO George Meany Center for Labor Studies, Silver Springs, Maryland (1975 to date). In 1998 he was appointed Director of the Drexel Center for Employment Futures (DCEFTM), a university-based think tank devoted to exploring frontiers in tomorrow's world of work.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Please Fasten Your Seatbelts PART I. COMPUTERS AND LABOR
Chapter 1. Using Computers as a Servicing Aid Chapter 2. Using Computers as
an Organizing Aid PART II. VARIATIONS ON THE THEME Chapter 3. Cyber Naught:
Paving Over the Cowpath Chapter 4. Cyber Drift: Going Nowhere Chapter 5.
Cyber Gain: Getting with It PART III. CYBERUNION: INFORMATICS PLUS Chapter
6. CyberUnion: Promoting Power Chapter 7. Futuristics: Promoting
Alternatives Chapter 8. Innovations: Promoting Risk-Taking Chapter 9.
Services: Promoting Ties PART IV: With a Little Help from Our Friends:
Build it, and they will Come Chapter II Change-Agents Stateside Chapter 12
Change-Agents: Overseas Chapter 13 Choices we must Make.