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

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

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]

Key Podcasts

• Peter Waterman on Communication Internationalism for Labor and Unions