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[Michel Bauwens]

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*Labour at Cyberspace:*

*Problems in Creating a Global Solidarity Culture *

*by Peter Waterman*
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*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



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