digital labor

It is ironic that new high-tech communications workers have fewer opportunities for labor-oriented communication than their industrial predecessors.  As responsible educators, we need to turn our critical attention to teaching labor organizing skills and net activism in all of our classrooms so that students are well practiced when they hit the labor market.  We should focus our students' attention on the activist possibilities of the net.  Our students should enter the workforce ready to engage it in all of its permutations.  And, our classrooms must become the think tanks in which they begin to analyze their desires as workers because our classrooms might very well be the last space available to them for f2f communication about work.