We're not really in a post-industrial period. The dominant industries have just changed from manufacturing to service. Therefore, an industrial union approach is still relevant and useful. It definitely has to adapt in other ways, though, namely to the broader culture of total fucking apathy (or open hostility) amongst people who really should be natural allies.

'Service' covers a lot, TQ, from selling Doritos at 7/11 to repairing mainframe industrial servers.

I think Toffler defined the measure of the tipping point to the 'third wave' to be when a majority of jobs entailed the manipulation of symbols rather than the manipulation of things.

Whatever you want to call it, we're not in the heyday of industrialism anymore.

In any case, many of today's young workers are not interested in long-term job security and regular hours, so much as they want flextime, training programs, mobility of health care, access to credit, discounted buying plans

Lifelong learning through a path of multiple careers--this is the main thrust. As an OBU model, the IWW might be in the best position to do something like this, but whatever union does, it will have a better chances to grow.

And, naturally, everone wants better wages and safer conditions.