Table of Contents

Introduction: Please Fasten Your Seatbelts PART I. COMPUTERS AND LABOR Chapter 1. Using Computers as a Servicing Aid Chapter 2. Using Computers as an Organizing Aid PART II. VARIATIONS ON THE THEME Chapter 3. Cyber Naught: Paving Over the Cowpath Chapter 4. Cyber Drift: Going Nowhere Chapter 5. Cyber Gain: Getting with It PART III. CYBERUNION: INFORMATICS PLUS Chapter 6. CyberUnion: Promoting Power Chapter 7. Futuristics: Promoting Alternatives Chapter 8. Innovations: Promoting Risk-Taking Chapter 9. Services: Promoting Ties PART IV: With a Little Help from Our Friends: Build it, and they will Come Chapter II Change-Agents Stateside Chapter 12 Change-Agents: Overseas Chapter 13 Choices we must Make.

About the Author

Arthur B. Shostak is a professor of sociology at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1967 to date). He previously taught at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania (1961-67). Shostak is also an adjunct sociologist on the faculty of the National Labor Relations College at the AFL-CIO George Meany Center for Labor Studies, Silver Springs, Maryland (1975 to date). In 1998 he was appointed Director of the Drexel Center for Employment Futures (DCEFTM), a university-based think tank devoted to exploring frontiers in tomorrow's world of work.