"Employers use networked technology to divide workers and defeat organizing, from electronically linking branch offices in a new globalized production system to facilitating subcontracting that divides work tasks between employees operating often on different continents. This article traces the evolving use of this new technology by labor activists to combat the undermining of union strength and highlights the present challenge for unions in using the Internet to fully mobilize rank-and-file union members. The reality facing labor is that corporations are using technology in more and more intensive ways to not only reorganize the workplace but to actually reorganize the global geography of work. While unions are themselves increasingly using technology in innovative ways, they still need to step up the pace to keep up with technology-driven corporate restructurings."

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