Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 1 Issue 2/3

The advent of open source unionism?

Richard B. Freeman

The purpose of this paper is to examine innovative union use of the internet in the 2000s and to see whether the major union innovations in the USA and UK mark the advent of “open…

Union renewal, union strategy and technology

Sandra Cockfield

This paper aims to examine the relationship between union renewal strategies and the adoption and implementation of information and communication technologies by trade unions.

Globalisation, collective action and counter‐coordination: The use of the new information communication technology by the Malaysian labour movement

Margaret Grieco, Mhinder Bhopal

This article aims to explore the use of new information communication technology by the Malaysian labour movement. New information communication technologies are undoubtedly…

Recovering experience, confirming identity, voicing resistance: The Braceros, the internet and counter‐coordination

Stephen Little, Stewart Clegg

This paper investigates how the learning trajectory of corporations utilising information and communication technologies has been matched by the labour movement and social…

The networked union? The internet as a challenge to trade union identity and roles

Miguel Martínez Lucio, Steve Walker

The article aims to look at the development of the internet in terms of its implications for the labour movement and its international activities.

ICTs, distributed discourse and the territorialisation of labour: the case of Balkan trade unionism

Andreja Zivkovic, John Hogan

This paper aims to examine the significance of information communication technology (ICT) for Balkan labour. Drawing on the heuristic of “distributed discourse”, this paper aims…

Information and communications technology use in British unions

Jack Fiorito, M. Todd Royle

Aims to review British labour union leaders’ views on the use and importance of information and communications technology (ICT) within their unions.

Unions and cyber‐activism in South Africa

Charley Lewis

The paper aims to present a historical overview of the use of information communications technology (ICT) tools and platforms, particularly e‐mail and the internet, as tools of…

The globalisation of labour: counter-coordination and unionism on the internet

Margaret Grieco, John Hogan, Miguel Martinez Lucio

The globalisation of labour: counter-coordination and unionism on the internet

Margaret Grieco, John Hogan, Miguel Martinez Lucio

Foreword

John Hogan, Peter Nolan