Trade Unions and the Age of Information and Communication Technologies in Kenya

By (author) Eric E. Otenyo

Publication date:

01 March 2017

Length of book:

264 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498548793

Trade Unions and the Age of Information and Communication Technologies in Kenya provides a comprehensive description of the use of ICTs within the trade union movement in Kenya. In this book, Professor Eric Otenyo explores the intersection between new technologies and union as key stakeholders in national governance and development. The dearth of research on how trade unions can play a part in the new economy continues to undermine the effective use of ICTs in development. This book brings to light the challenges that unions face while navigating the new economy and netstate characterized by a proliferation of ICTs and globalization.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Unions and the Age of ICTs in Kenya: An Overview
Chapter 2: Trade Unions, ICTs and Public Policy in the New Economy
Chapter 3: Industrialization and Technology Diffusion: State Capacity in the Age of ICTs
Chapter 4: Unions: Education, Laptops, and Shrinking of the Digital Divide
Chapter 5: Trade Union Member Attitudes Towards ICTs: Implications for Participation in Governance
Chapter 6: Productivity Discourses, Information Technology, and Unions
Chapter 7: Trade Unions and Internationalism: Emerging Governance Networks
About the Author

In his 249-page book, Otenyo navigates this path skillfully, thereby demonstrating where unions in Kenya have leveraged ict to register success and, in critical areas, where they have come short. It is a book packed with details, insightful analysis and speculations about what the future holds. . . In all, Otenyo has authored an intellectually-engaging book, which forces us to consider the evolution of worker-right organizations in a rapidly changing economic environments.