I finished reading For The Win, part 2, today. The book continues the stories started in part 1, and adds the viewpoints of several new characters. I found the book’s concentration on the worker’s rights fight during part 2, especially Yasmin’s (A former member of Mala’s army) encounter with Ashok and the leaders of other Unions in the country. The disjoint between the views of the online workers toward what they do and can do against the ‘real-world’ union’s views on the online workers is quite interesting. The online workers feel they are a valid part of the workforce, deserve rights, and can fight for those rights. The real-world unions view the online works as children playing games, and do not see the advantage of adding them to the union movement. I must admit that I have a little skeptical of the idea of online-unions, not because of the humans rights issue, but because of the  moral issues that arise from unionizing a form of work that is actually illegal. No matter the problems that are in the real-world for the online works, the work they are doing is illegal due to the terms of use agreement in the game. The basis of their work is so relate on an industry that is actively fighting to remove them from the game. The book seems to ignore largely ignore the game owner’s rights, demoting them from the owners of the game to being a challenge in the gold-farmers existence. Unionizing is about basic rights and protection for works, and that I approve of, but it does not seem at all logical to unionize over an industry that is on such a unstable playing field, where the work done by members can be wiped out and removed in seconds by game administrators – who would be doing nothing wrong.