Net Loss: Internet Profits, Private Profits and the Costs to Community
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Given that Nathan is the blogosphere reigning labor expert, I gladly yield the floor to him. - Daily Kos Nathan Newman is for you: no bullshit, and he's got some notion how the world actually works. -- Brian Leiter If you haven’t been reading Newman all along you’ve been missing one of the more original voices in blogdom. - Electrolite (July 20, 2006)
Workers Independent News Service interview on Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement (July 16, 2005)
Big Pharma, Bad Science (Aug. 25, 2002)- compromised science and biomedicine.
The Origins and Future of Open Source Software(1999) - A NetAction white paper on open source software
Browser Update: One Year Later(5/98)
The Future of E-Commerce(3/98)
Microsoft's Threat to the Online Financial Marketplace
From Microsoft Word to Microsoft World(11/97) NetAction's White Paper examines Microsoft's global strategy
Micro$oft Monitor- NetAction newsletter articles on Microsoft campaign.
Selected issues below
Other Technology Articles
The Hypocrisy Of ISP Welfare And The Myth Of The Cyber Free Market.ENODE (July 1997).
NCs- The End Of Personal Computing?ENODE (January 1997).
How private business almost derailed the Internet, CNET NEWS.COM (January 3, 1997.)
How Microchips Create Megabanks.ENODE (October 1996).
"Third Wave" Unionism Takes To The Net.ENODE (August 1996).
A Site License for China? Intellectual Property in a "Have-Not" World(July 1996)
Virtual Sunshine May Rain On Local Economic Development.ENODE (June 1996).
Academic Writing
See profile of my book: Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits and the Costs to Community:
to be published August 2002 by Penn State Press.
See original version, Net Loss: The Political Economy of Community in the Age of the Internet- Ph.D. Dissertation in Sociology from UC-Berkeley 1998
Trade Secrets and Collective Bargaining: A Solution to Resolving Tensions in the Economics of Innovation- Revised Fall 2000 (web version w/o footnotes).
Database Protection: Rewarding Sweat or Destroying Fair Use- Background paper for Yale Law Private Censorship/Perfect Choice conference (April 1999).
The Great Internet Tax Drain from MIT Technology Review(May/June 1996)
Prop 13 Meets the Internet: How State And Local Government Finances Are Becoming Road Kill On The Information Superhighway- Report by the Center for Community Economic Research at University of California, Berkeley (August 1995)
Election 2000 and its Aftermath
The Case for Impeaching the Rehnquist Five(Summer 2001)
How Southern Violations of States Rights Caused the Civil War- BRC-NEWS (Jan 21 2001).
Was the Fix In? New White House Counsel Accused of Favoritism for Cheney's Halliburton- Common Dreams (December 2000).
The Jim Crow Five and the Coming Political War. Dec 13, 2000.
Florida GOP Filed 1997 Suit To Force New Election Over Recount- Yale Law School Campaign for a Legal Election (Nov 2000).
Older Political Writing
Teamster Scandals and Republicans, or why the Republicans should just shut up.1997.
Why the Victory at UPS Matters.Center for Community Economic Research. August 1997.
How Welfare Helps the Rest of Us.Solutions (July 1996).
Are the Democrats the 'Third Party' we've been looking for?Dialogue & Initiative (Summer 1996).
On-Line Organizing Comes Of Age- CrossRoads (Sep 1995).
Affirmative Action, The UC Regents & The Explosion of Campus Activism - Independent Politics (Sep/Oct 1995).
In The Shadow Of Prop 187: Fighting For Immigrant Workplace Justice At The Lafayette ParkLaborNotes (August 1995).
Can Teams in San Francisco Hotels Open a New Era in the Industry? - LaborNotes(April 1995).
Market Leftism: Money, Machines and the Left's Decline- CrossRoads (May 1994).
If Not Nafta, Then What? Labor Center Reporter - UC-Berkeley (Vol 288 1994)
Graduate Student Employees Still Fighting Uphill Battle After University of California Strike - LaborNotes (Feb.1993).
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