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Researchers and Workers Forum – Self Management and Alternative Forms of Work Organisation
A free forum organised by researchers from the Business School’s Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour Research Group is open to PhD students, academics, and members of the public interested in the themes involved. Held on 22-23 October 2009 in the Business School’s Professional and Management Development Centre (PMDC) the purpose of the forum is to present research from leading international researchers on themes including the history of industrial relations; current experiences in Argentina and Venezuela; Self Management in Sweden and the UK; and Cooperativism. |
For those interested in attending…
Date: 22nd – 23rd October 2009
Venue: BE053, PMDC, Business School, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
To book your place or for more information please contact Barbara Gregory on +44 (0)1509 228275 or B.E.Gregory@lboro.ac.uk.
Programme of Events
Thursday 22nd October 2009
Morning Session: Lessons from History and Industrial Relations
- ‘Council Communism - a practical and theoretical experience in the history of workers’ self-management and self-liberation’ by Christian Frings
- ‘An Industrial Relations Perspective on Employee Participation’ by Peter Ackers, Loughborough University
Afternoon Session: Current Experiences from South America
(i) Session on Argentina
- ‘Labour Process and decision-making in the occupied factories in Argentina’ by Maurizio Atzeni, Loughborough University
- ‘Workers’ Experiences: Fasinpat/Zanon’ by Mario Guayquil, workers’ delegate, Fasinpat/Zanon
- ‘Zanon – A factory in the hand of the workers’ by Alix Arnold
(ii) Session on Venezuela
- ‘Venezuela’s solidarity economy: ‘Collective ownership, expropriation and workers’ self-management’ by Dario Azzellini, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt and Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico
- ‘Workers’ experiences: Cemento Andino and Inveval’ by Zoraida Benitez Perdomo, workers’ delegate Cemento Andino and Nelson Rodriguez, workers’ delegate Inveval
- ‘Government perspective: politics and practice of workers’ self-management’ by Jorge Oliveros, Venezuelan Ministry of Work
Friday 23rd October 2009
Morning Session: Self-Management in Sweden and the UK
(i) Session on Sweden
- ‘Employee Ownership in a Harsh Work Environment: Coping with Profi t-sharing and Occupational Health at Österby Gjuteri’ by Christer Thörnqvist, Gothenburg University and Yale University
- ‘Workers’ experiences: ‘SAC position on self-management and strategies for workers’ struggle’ by Ruben Tastas Duque, representative of SAC, Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden
(ii) Session on the UK
- ‘Tower Colliery experience and it’s implications for the notion of workers’ control’ by Tom Keenoy, Len Arthur, Molly Scott-Cato and Russell Smith, Cardiff Institute for Co-operative Studies, UWIC
- ‘Workers’ experiences: SUMA’ by Bob Cannell, delegate Suma workers cooperative and board member of Cooperatives UK
Afternoon Session: The links between Co-operativism and Self-Management
- ‘The Mondragon Experience: New Challenges, Enduring Questions and Potential Lessons’ by George Cheney, University of Texas, USA
- ‘Worker’s Cooperatives and Unemployment: the Brazilian Case’ by
- Jacob Carlos Lima, Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
Concluding Session: Factories Occupations, a step forward for Workers’ Self Management?
- Workers factories occupation in the Global North’ by Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College City University of New York
Discussions and Closing
