New technology, trade unions and the future: not quite the end of organised labour

This paper outlines different dimensions and historical features of the debate regarding worker organisations question new technology at work. There has always been a tension between pessimistic views that highlight difficulties established trade unions have had when responding to use technologies by employers. However, there are range developments suggest and, also, broader networks workers introduction in terms their regulation through courts, for example, innovative forms bargaining as well mobilisation, organisation, communication. What is more, alternative legacies highlighting responses technological change more complex although how these evolved another matter.