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

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

• Please read: Theses on Digital Labor in an Emerging P2P Economy

• Peter Waterman: Linking Labour and the Commons Internationally‎: Re-Interpreting Equality in Terms of the Principle of the Commons

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

• Key article by Hilary Wainwright: Co-Creative Labor, Productive Democracy and the Partner State; a very important text to reset government policies for the p2p age. The 3 parts cover: 1 A value revolution in labor; 2 Re-constituting industrial strategies based on co-creative labor; 3 The Co-Creative Economy needs a Partner State

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 Articles

• Hilary Wainwright: From Labour as Commodity to Labour as a Common

How-To

1. How to Find a Job Using Social Media [4]
2. The Shareable Job Search Search [5]
3. How to Create Your Own Green Job [6]
4. How to Make A Franchise Shareable [7]

Key Books

• Under, Against, Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised, Informatised, Capitalism. By Waterman Peter [8]

Labor under Cognitive Capitalism

Dyer-Withford, Nick. and Greig de Peuter, Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Neff, Gina. Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.

Scholz. Trebor, Ed. Digital Labor: The Internet as Factory and Playground. New York: Routledge, 2013

Peters, Michael A. and Ergin Bulut, Eds. Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2011.

Key Podcasts

• Peter Waterman on Communication Internationalism for Labor and Unions