Contesting Digital Technology through New Forms of Transnational Activism

Bibliographic Data

ID21829554
AuthorsEdward Webster (0000-0003-2540-3052, University of the Witwatersrand), Carmen Ludwig (University of the Witwatersrand)
Year2023
Volume14
Issue1
Publication date2023-01-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Labour Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1918-6711 • E-ISSN: 1918-6711
PublisherMcMaster University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15173/glj.v14i1.5022
OpenAlexW4318817524
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

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

CONTEST · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Global South · Political science · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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