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CyberUnion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology.

by Arthur B. Shostak. M.E. Sharpe. 1999. 262 pages. Paperback.

Organized labor unions are building a new model of organization based on increasingly creative and effective use of computers. Labor educator and sociologist Arthur Shostak examines this new model, the "cyberunion," drawing

on essays by rank-and-file union members who are using computers to help the labor movement renew itself.

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