---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 7:07 AM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] (no subject) To: [email protected] *Labour@Cyberspace:* *Problems in Creating a Global Solidarity Culture * *by Peter Waterman* ------------------------------ *Notes:* This paper was written originally (under a different title) for the LabourMedia97 Conference, organised by computer and other communications specialists working with the Korean labour movement, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November, 1997. I have left the body of the paper as it was. Footnotes and an extensive Postscript brings it up to date as of March 1999. A limited bibliography and resource list has been added. Further sources for the argument can be found in my recent publications, or on the Global Solidarity Site (see link at bottom of page). *Introduction: the maturing of a model* In 1984 I first wrote a paper entitled `Needed: a New Communications Model for a New Labour Internationalism. This suggested, precisely, that the new labour internationalism then taking shape was not an organisational but a `communications' internationalism. I surveyed the field, identified resources, indicated some relevant theory, suggested obstacles and strategy. The paper also identified the pioneering role being played by international labour support and media groups on the periphery of the union movement. In 1995 I wrote another paper, entitled "A New Communications Model for a New Labour Internationalism: Still Needed." This looked sceptically at the achievements of the intervening years. It recognised the decline, in the face of neo-liberal attack and trade union retreat, of the independent labour support groups, and their frequent over-engagement with (not necessarily incorporation by) the institutionalised union movement, nationally and internationally. I identified the common problems facing both the institutionalised and the alternative labour media activists. I suggested that labour by itself was unlikely to develop an appropriate new international communications model, and concluded that it would need to learn from the new alternative international social movements (women's, ecological, alternative radio and video, etc.) if it was to do so. I mentioned the number of international labour periodicals that had disappeared, or failed to take off. And then indicated the writings and activities of the international women's, and the (largely non-labour) radio and video movements. .....http://www.cybersociology.com/files/5_LabouratCyberspace.html _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/