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Arthur B. Shostak, ed., The CyberUnion Handbook: Transforming Labor through Computer Technology. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. 359 pp. $64.95 cloth; $25.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2004

Peter Waterman
Peter Waterman
Affiliation:
Global Solidarity Dialogue, The Hague
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On the one hand Shostak uses the word “transformation” on his front cover. On the other, he quotes, on a flyleaf, the words of that personification of nineteenth- and twentieth-century business unionism, Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, 1886–1924. Gompers asked and answered his own question: “What does labor want? More.” This was a quantitative answer to what had earlier been, and today may again be, a qualitative question. So the question is raised, with respect to this book, as with his previous one (Shostak, 1999), whether Shostak wants faster unions or transformed unions.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 63 , April 2003 , pp. 146 - 149
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© 2003 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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