Samuel Gompers: "So long as there is one man who seeks employment and cannot obtain it, the hours of labor are too long."

New section, under construction since February 26, 2010.

'The section is dedicated to the intersection between peer to peer dynamics, , the new work culture and hacker ethics, the (im)material labor of knowledge workers, and their intersection with the traditional labour movement and concerns. It's also specifically dedicated to alliances between p2p movements and workers movements.

Introduction

• Recommended books on the contemporary condition of 'work', by Dougald Hine at http://dougald.co.uk/workbooks.htm

Worthy of attention and support

• Orsan Senalp's work on Social Network Unionism

• Tom Walker's work on Social Accounting [1] ; i.e. on considering Employment as a Common Pool Resource in order to institute a Labor Commons

Citations

“In the age of hand-crafting, the dominant forms of organization were the all-powerful churches, kingdoms, and hand-craftsmen guilds. Just as the age of machine-crafting led the emergence of today’s organizations, ending the dominance of guilds, kingdoms, and churches, so too will the age of mind-crafting give rise to new, more chaordic concepts of organization that will end the dominance of today’s organizational structures.”

- Dee Hock [2]

Key Resources

• Free and Open Software Applications that are safe and useful for unionists, labour and social justice activists: [3]

Key Books

• Under, Against, Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised, Informatised, Capitalism. By Waterman Peter [4]