Contesting Digital Technology through New Forms of Transnational Activism

IF 1.3 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
E. Webster, Carmen Ludwig
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Abstract

While the tech giants are using privatisation to present themselves as providers of solutions to global problems, digitalisation is creating new forms of transnational activism. Global unions are emerging as players in this contest, helping to build counter power at both the local and global level. Through a comparison of the use of digital technology in two case studies in Africa involving two different global unions the article demonstrates how global unions can, through their intermediary coordinating role at the supranational level, deepen worker power. KEYWORDS: Global unions; digital technology; informal work; power resources; union revitalisation
通过跨国行动主义的新形式来竞争数字技术
尽管科技巨头们正在利用私有化来展示自己是全球问题解决方案的提供者,但数字化正在创造新形式的跨国行动主义。全球工会正在成为这场竞争的参与者,帮助在地方和全球层面建立反垄断力量。通过对非洲两个涉及两个不同全球工会的案例研究中数字技术的使用进行比较,文章展示了全球工会如何通过其在超国家层面的中介协调作用,深化工人权力。关键词:全球工会;数字技术;非正式工作;电力资源;工会振兴
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Global Labour Journal
Global Labour Journal INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-
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