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COMMUNITY UNIONISM (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: Organizing among workers with multiple employers/workplaces through workers' centres/associations, sometimes in alliance with unions; self-organizing focusing on politicization and social justice.

    COMMUTING (Search for related entries in the library)

    Scope Note: A form of geographic mobility also known as the journey-to-work that varies temporarily.

    COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION (Search for related entries in the library)

    Scope Note: A teaching and learning method in which a computer is used as a teaching device to present instructional material and to monitor learning.

    COMPUTER INDUSTRY 

    COMPUTER LITERACY 

    COMPUTER SCIENCE (Search for related entries in the library)

    Scope Note: An academic discipline concerned primarily with the conceptualization, creation, development, implementation, and manipulation of computer systems and languages.

    COMPUTERIZATION (Search for related entries in the library)

    Scope Note: The conversion of a manual work process to a computer-based process, or the implementation of computers in a workplace.

    COMPUTERS (Search for related entries in the library)

    Scope Note: Machines designed to facilitate and speed up communication, electronic information storage, and logical processes.

    CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS 

    CONSENSUS DECISION MAKING 

    Scope Note: A mechanism for democratizing organizations, moving them away from representative forms toward more inclusive and particatory ones. Linked to non-bureaucratic and community-based organizations/groups, e.g., women's and social movements.