6-8/24 London callling! Talks, conference, political economy and more
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0. Before
1. New Books and research reports (English, Portuguese):
Atzeni, Maurizio; Azzellini, Dario; Mezzadri, Alessandra; Moore, Phoebe; Apitzsch, Ursula (Eds.). 2023. Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work. Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Azzellini, Dario. 2023. Sustainable Work and Just Transition: Policies and labour movement actors in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Spain, Poland, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Geneva. 121 pp.
Azzellini, Dario. 2023. O movimento autogestionário mundial: uma perspectiva marxista. Brasil: Lutas Anticapital.
2. Academic articles: Book chapters and journal articles (English, German)
3. Videos/Audios (German)
4. Talks/Conferences (London, Sardinia)
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0. Before
London calling! I will be in London in June teaching two masterclasses on Just Transition and participating at a workshop on labour struggles! The events will be June 11, 13, 17-18 (See 4. regarding subjects, dates and venues). I hope to see my London friends and colleagues there. If you can't attend and want to meet, let me know. See 4
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June 19-25 I will attend the 3rd Labour Transfer School in Buggerru, Sardinia. It's already fully booked. If you want to have a look at the exciting (preliminary) program and get animated to participate in 2025 at the 4th LTS, have a look here:
https://www.azzellini.net/node/3348
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Intan Suwandi on our Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work:
‘This is a much needed Handbook that adds value to the growing literature on the global political economy of work. Its strength lies in the collection of works that, using critical perspectives, puts labor at the center of various interdisciplinary analyses. Offering a comprehensive view—theoretically, geographically, and in terms of work sectors—this bookcollection challenges Eurocentrism in labor studies and highlights how the workings of the world economy can have significant negative impacts on the peoples in the Global South.’
Intan Suwandi, Illinois State University, US
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Dario
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1. New Books and research reports (English, Portuguese)
Atzeni, Maurizio, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Phoebe Moore, Ursula Apitzsch. 2023. Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work. UK, E-Elgar EE.
"This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work. Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, this Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the relations between different forms of work, exploitation, class configuration and worker resistance. With insights from global experts across the social sciences, it examines changes in technology, geographies of production, and the dynamics of the global capitalist political economy to map modern configurations of work. Using ongoing empirical qualitative research, contributors explore key issues such as capital accumulation, migration, digital work, trade unionism and reproductive labour. There is a particular focus on perspectives from the Global South, with in-depth analyses of class and work in countries and regional economic blocs used to explore the dynamics between the local and the global. "
http://www.azzellini.net/node/3320
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handbook-of-research-on-the-global-poli...
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Azzellini, Dario. 2023. Sustainable Work and Just Transition: Policies and labour movement actors in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Spain, Poland, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Geneva
Scientists agree that what is done by governments is by far not enough to halt global warming, climate change and mass extinction, much less to reverse it. Not even the measures planned are sufficient if ever enacted. The present report offers eight country case studies looking at the policies and discourses regarding work in the socioecological transition and labour organizations, social movements and environmental movements eventually forging alliances for sustainable work and a just transition.
https://rosalux-geneva.org/sustainable-work-and-just-transition/
https://www.azzellini.net/node/3327
Free download at: https://bitly.ws/WqWG
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Azzellini, Dario. 2023. O movimento autogestionário mundial: uma perspectiva marxista. Brasil: Lutas Anticapital.
A presente obra de Dario Azzellini demonstra, com um extenso levantamento de experiências em diversos países e continentes, que existem elementos de continuidade entre as atuais fábricas recuperadas e o “legado” dos movimentos pretéritos de lutas autônomas e autogestionárias do movimento operário. Ao mesmo tempo, nas condições atuais do capitalismo e da luta de classes, Dario Azzellini atualiza a estratégia associativista e autogestionária, trazendo a tona importantes contribuições políticas para o projeto de emancipação da classe trabalhadora, pensando a força de trabalho como bem comum, produtor de valores de uso, e a perspectiva comunal, que articula produção e reprodução material com a organização social. Fruto de uma pesquisa extensa, de abrangência mundial, a presente obra deve se tornar referência obrigatória para todos que lutam pela superação do capital, da exploração econômica e da opressão política. Mauricio Sardá de Faria - UFRPE
https://lutasanticapital.com.br/products/o-movimento-autogestionario-mun...
https://www.azzellini.net/node/3310
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2. Academic articles: Book chapters and journal articles (English, German)
Azzellini, Dario. 2023. "Commune socialism: self-management, popular power and autonomy in Venezuela". In From Extractivism to Sustainability: Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America, edited by Henry Veltmeyer, Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete. (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003301981
In this chapter, the author analyses the dynamics of a broad movement to construct an alternative ‘social and solidarity’ form of society based on co-operativism, autonomism and worker self-management, and local community-based development within the context of popular power (poder popular) and the institution of Communal Councils, which was constructed ‘from below’ within civil society, although the leading role of these councils in the social transformation that has taken place in Venezuela over the past decade, and their revolutionary form (autonomous bodies of popular power), owes much to state support. This chapter elaborates this point, but he also argues out that the State has also an inherent tendency to inhibit the development of autonomous structures and tends to control and subordinate social processes. This contradiction, the author argues, in the case of Venezuela became increasingly accentuated the more communities developed the structures of self-government.
https://www.azzellini.net/node/3307
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003301981-20/com...
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Azzellini, Dario, Sebastian Brandl und Ingo Matuschek. 2023. "Nationale Perspektiven auf Nachhaltige Arbeit und Inwertsetzungen von Arbeit in Europa". In Nachhaltig Werte schaffen? Arbeit und Technik in der sozial-ökologischen Transformation, herausgegeben vom Thomas Barth, Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Georg Jochum und Stephan Lorenz. Series Arbeitsgesellschaft im Wandel. 100-116. Weinheim: Beltz / Juventa.
Die gegenwärtigen Organisationsformen von Arbeit sind vielfach nicht nachhaltig. Arbeit als zugleich wertschaffende und wertzerstörende Tätigkeit droht somit die Grundlagen zukünftigen Arbeitens und Lebens zu untergraben. Mit dem Band wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich auf nachhaltige Weise Werte schaffen lassen, wobei das Zusammenspiel von Arbeit, Nachhaltigkeit, Werten und den genutzten Technologien im Vordergrund steht: Unter welchen Bedingungen und mithilfe welcher Technologien können die Naturverhältnisse nachhaltig gestaltet werden und welche Hindernisse bestehen dabei?
https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/soziologie/produkte/details/48818-nachha...
https://www.beltz.de/fileadmin/beltz/leseproben/978-3-7799-7007-1.pdf
https://www.azzellini.net/buchbeitraege/nationale-perspektiven-auf-nachh...
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3. Videos/Audios (German)
Audiomitschnitt Azzellini und IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung)
Am 15.5.2024 hatten wir Dario Azzellini in Berlin zu Gast und haben mit ihm über Rätedemokratie und Arbeitszeitrechnung gesprochen. Wir teilen mit euch hier den Audiomitschnitt der Veranstaltung.
https://www.azzellini.net/interviews/azzellini-und-ida-raetedemokratie-u...
https://arbeitszeit.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/27/audiomitschnitt-azzellin...
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Mit Genossenschaften zum Ökosozialismus – Perspektiven von Dario Azzellini
Radio Corax, 21.5.2024, 33:33 min.
Dario Azzellini sprach auf dem Marx is Muss Kongress in Berlin darüber wie und ob man mit Genossenschaften zum Ökosozialismus kommen könnte. Wir haben ihm diese Frage auch gestellt und einen kleinen Exkurs in theoretische und praktische Auseinndersetzungen zur Betriebsbesetzung unternommen. Dario hat diesbezüglich an einer reihe von Filmen Occupy, Produce, Resist mitgewirt. Auch sprachen wir mit Dario über seine Veröffentlichungen im gerade erschienen Buch "Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work" und seinen dort Besprochenen Begriff der nachhaltigen Arbeit, sowie die Kritik die Dario am Nachhaltigkeitsbegriff hat und wie dieser aktuell angewand wird.
https://radiocorax.de/mit-genossenschaften-zum-oekosozialismus-perspekti...
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4. Talks/Conferences (London, Sardinia)
11 June 2024 | 15:00 - 17:00
Sustainable Work and Just Transition - Masterclass at the CLaSP London
Please join us for a Masterclass on Sustainable Work and Just Transition with Dario Azzellini
There is a scientific consensus on the need to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Governments and capital focus on changing consumption and production patterns, but want to keep everything as it is. In production, the focus is on the “technological fix”. Technology and recycling are important for socio-ecological transformation. However, they have already failed as a solution to the environmental crisis. Changing production and consumption patterns alone will not lead to the necessary socio-ecological transformation. Employment and labour markets are already changing, and we need to ensure that work itself becomes sustainable in all its aspects.What is sustainable work? ....
Continue reading: https://www.claspblog.org/events/sustainable-work-and-just-transition
Place: Graduate Center, GC201, Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production, at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | London, England, E1 4NS
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13 June 2024 | 15:00 - 17:00
Who are the Experts? Co-Research with workers and communities - Masterclass at the CLaSP London
Please join us for a Masterclass on Co-researching methods with workers and communities with Dario Azzellini
Co-research, action research, participatory research and several more terms refer to research in which the researcher engages supposedly with some kind of collective knowledge production. But what is what, and what makes sense for whom? How can they be intertwined with methods as observation and fieldnotes, oral history, interviews (individual and focus group), and visual methods? Furthermore, there are several issues that I would like to consider and we as researchers should hold as constant questions throughout all of our work and discussions. These issues are those of class, “race,” gender relations, power, position, subjectivity and ethics....
Continue reading: https://www.claspblog.org/events/sustainable-work-and-just-transition-thytk
Queens QB-213, in Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London
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17 June 2024 | 10:30 - 18 June 2024 | 18:00
Workers' struggles and capitalist strategies: Perspectives from Africa and South America in an age of 'sustainability'
Workshop organised by Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production
Programme
June 17th
10.30 to 13.00: Structures of capital in agriculture, logistics and manufacturing in Africa and South America
15.00 to 17.30: Workers’ creativity, education and the co-production of knowledge of capital
June 18th
10.00 to 13.00: Contours of strategy and struggle from below
14:00: Walking tour by Edward Legon and Jack Sargeant
Even as a sustainability agenda is being mainstreamed across business and policy-making, it is defined predominantly through environmental considerations. This is important but it overlooks the critical social dimension of sustainability. Through a range of events and workshops in recent years, the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP) has emphasized the need to combine perspectives on ecology and labour for a sustainability agenda that is transformative and not piecemeal and status-quoist.
Building on this past work, the Centre’s end-of-year event in 2024 will focus on an open-ended analysis of struggles and strategies by the ‘labouring classes’ in the contexts of shifting capitalist strategies and varied ecological crises, from global heating to localised crop disease; in other words, it will focus on rethinking structures of capital from below. It will focus on Africa and South America as two of the largest regions of the global South, which is already being disproportionately impacted by climate change, and on varied sectors like agricultural, logistics and manufacturing within them.
We ask: how is environmental change impacting workers across different sectoral and regional contexts? How are the strategies of capital transforming in response to environmental change and demands for just transition? How are workers and their organizations/unions responding to these changes? What kinds of historical legacies of collective action/struggle are shaping their response? What possibilities and contradictions emerge with the loss of key sites of organised working class power as a result of 'sustainability transitions'? What kind of (dis)articulations exist between formal trade unions and informal grassroots organizing and between production and social reproduction? What dilemmas and opportunities exist in building solidarities with subaltern communities who may not see themselves as part of the labouring classes? Finally, what are the strategies for workers’ education being used, what can be learned from different contexts and how can bridge struggles and build wider solidarities?
Held over two days at Queen Mary University of London, the event will consist of two panels on Monday 17 June from 10.30 to 17.30, and a roundtable on 18 June from 10.00-13.00, ending with an East London walking tour at 14.00. We are keen that attendees engage actively in this event. As such, we recommend that people attend both days because the format is designed to build iteratively on each other and maintain continuity in discussions.Speakers include:
- Angela Dziedzom Akorsu, School for Development Studies. University of Cape Coast, Ghana
- Maurizio Atzeni, CEIL/CONICET Argentina and Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile
- Dario Azzellini, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico.
- Jörg Nowak, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
- Rose Omamo, General Secretary, Amalgamated Union of Kenya Metal Workers, Kenya
- Julia Soul, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, CEIL/Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales, TEL/Taller de Estudios Laborales, Argentina
- Dzodzi Tsikata, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
https://www.claspblog.org/events/workers-struggles-and-capitalist-strate...
Graduate Centre, Room GC201 | London, England, E1 4NS
Attendance is free and in-person only, please register in advance here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tbsj14PLohiWm12X3vH8vBB2xUh4s_C1qt_VwYR...
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