The future of unions and the internet

Eric Lee from LabourStart kicked off today's first session - speaking about some of the successes (and potential pitfalls) of on-line campaigning.

LabourStart now has over 37,000 subscribers - supported by 400 volunteer correspondents, posting 250 labour stories a day in 21 languages. Most importantly it is actively supporting (and helping win!) a whole range of international labour campaigns - in a whole range of countries including New Zealand, Indonesia and the USA.

Other speakers today included Arthur B Shostak, John Hogan, Peter Nolan, Eszter Hargiattai and Richard B Freeman - so its be a long (but interesting) day.

I spoke briefly as well - which I reckon means I'm the first Urban Studies graduate from Liverpool Poly to ever speak at Harvard Law School!