.. and Unions 2.0 ?

.. implying that the union philosophy and movement renews itself at a deep level through understanding, interpreting and integrating the principles of networked information-flow-based work as well as the types of deep changes that have occurred in skilled trades, administrative white-collar work, and semi-automated routinized information work.

Huge challenges, and Kevin's point underscores the probability that over time there will come to be a form or forms of advocacy and political force emerging from the new set of conditions. There will need to be, or neo-feudalism will take deep(er) root globally.

I am forever reminded of the last section (titled Bribing the Knowledge Worker) of Peter Drucker's 1999 Atlantic Monthly essay "Beyond The Information Revolution".