12/24 Labour Transfer School 4! Crowd work, autogestion
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Dez. 2024, Dario Azzellini's newsletter in English - approx. 4 times a year (also in Spanish and German)
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1. New Books and research reports (English, German):
2. Academic articles: Book chapters and journal articles (English, German)
3. Videos/Audios (English/Spanish)
4. Interviews and journalistic articles (German, Turkish)
5. Talks/Conferences (Buggerru/Sardinia)
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0. Before
Hello!
I don't have a good feeling about 2025. It's about the world's new order. Wars will continue to spread. International law is dead. No matter what anyone ever thought of it. The global North's claim to political legitimacy has died. Pandora's box has been opened. In most countries in the global North, political discourses, media, TV series, parties across the political spectrum are mobilizing their societies for more military spending and war preparations. Of course, this is only forced by the numerous and increasing number of enemies, all of whom are also uncivilized and dehumanized. Just as refugees and migrants have become the main target of the same range of actors. There is a militarization of borders as well as of the police and their role. The rapid and continuous increase in military spending is accompanied by cuts in spending on social welfare, education, health, and above all on climate protection measures.
Climate catastrophe is visible and tangible worldwide, with drastic consequences for billions of people. In 2015, the world's governments agreed to limit the increase in the global average temperature to a maximum of 1.5 C compared to pre-industrial levels. For 2024, an increase of more than 1.5 C is considered certain. From June 2023 to May 2024, the global average temperature was already 1.63 °C higher.
But maybe everything will turn out completely differently... The future is unwritten!
Here's to a 2025 full of popular victories!
Dario
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Labour Transfer Summer School 2025 - June 8-13 in Sardinia!!!
The call is out! See 5 and the website for more information and registration!!
https://www.labourtransferschool.org/
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Many thanks to the wonderful colleagues in Brazil for the invitation to deliver the key note for the conference of the UESB and the pedagocial museum in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahía. I enjoyed it very much! Scroll down for a link to the video with my (Spanish) key note!
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1. New Books and research reports (English, German)
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
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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://rosalux-geneva.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Dario_Azzellini_Report_JT_RLS_final-1.pdf
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Azzellini, Dario. 2024. Crowdwork: Kontext und Kompetenzentwicklung in den Ländern Italien, den Niederlanden, Schweden und dem Vereinigten Königreich. Working Papers No. 14. Working Papers des Forschungsclusters OPAL der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität.
Die vorliegende Untersuchung zu Crowdwork bietet einen Überblick zu den Funktionen und Praxen der Gestaltung von Crowdworking-Plattformen im Allgemeinen und in vier Ländern Europas (Italien, Niederlande, Schweden und Vereinigtes Königreich) im Besonderen.
https://openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de/entities/publication/17002
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2. Academic articles: Book chapters and journal articles (German)
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-nachhaltig-werte-schaffen.html
https://www.beltz.de/fileadmin/beltz/leseproben/978-3-7799-7007-1.pdf
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3. Videos/Audios (English/Spanish)
Commons and Social Transformation - Dario Azzellini, 23.10.2024, 26 min.
Theresa Alt asks Dario Azzellini about the concept of commons, economic activity that is neither capitalist nor governmental. The commons existed before capitalism, and capitalism requires enclosure of the commons. Now many see commoning as a way to decommodify some resources. Labor power too could be decommodified. But capital tries to take over more and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=kUrbsX5mYSY
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Entre la crisis climática, ecológica y social del planeta: ¿Hay caminos para la Resistencia y las utopías?
Dario Azzellini, 6 de noviembre, 2024, 1h 33 min.
Crisis climática, trabajo, utopías, comunas, autogestión, clase, Norte-Sur, genero, sustentabilidad... ¿Como se conecta todo?
Discurso de Dario Azzellini en la inauguración del 15. Colóquio Nacional e 8. Colóquio Internacional do Museu Pedagógico da UESB. Vitoria da Conquista, Bahía, Brasil.
“Entre a crise climática, ecológica e social do planeta: ainda há caminhos para a resistência e as utopias?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8kpBOd_bls&t=1s
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4. Interviews and journalistic articles (English, German, Turkish)
Notes from an event with Dario Azzellini and the Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting, Berlin, May 2024, Angryworkers.org
"We document these notes from a recent discussion event. We appreciate that the international discussion about transition is widening and becoming more concrete. When it comes to the recuperated factories in Argentina it would be good to sharpen the political criteria. Which factories are still engaged in a wider political movement for a general social transformation and why? Which factories refuse ownership and ‘market responsibility’ and push for guaranteed wages from the state? Which factories opt for pay increases for ‘their workforce’ and which factories rather opt for employing additional workers?"
http://www.azzellini.net/node/3354
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„Sie sind nicht nur Arbeitskräfte“
Aktuelle Analyse zu rückeroberten Betrieben. Gespräch mit Dario Azzellini. Geführt von Ayse Tekin, Manfred Neugroda, Nuria CafaroSoZ Nr.9, 2024
AT: Du dokumentierst in deiner Arbeit rückeroberte Betriebe in Europa und Lateinamerika. Ist das so bewusst geographisch gewählt, oder gibt es in den anderen Teilen der Welt weniger Beispiele?
DA: Nein, es gibt tatsächlich überall Beispiele auf der Welt. Ich wähle nur nach Sprachen, die ich gut beherrsche. Ich kann leider kein Chinesisch und von daher ist es echt schwer, da was rauszufinden. Was wir wissen, ist, dass es auch dort Betriebsbesetzungen um die 2000er Wende gab, als die große Privatisierungswelle war. Dabei haben auch einige besetzte Betriebe durchgesetzt, Genossenschaften zu werden....
Weiterlesen:
https://www.azzellini.net/interviews/%E2%80%9Esie-sind-nicht-nur-arbeitskraefte%E2%80%9C
https://www.sozonline.de/2024/09/sie-sind-nicht-nur-arbeitskraefte/
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Solidarische Alternativen zu kapitalistischen Pleiten
Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter erobern ihre Betriebe zurück und öffnen Wege zu einer nichtkapitalistischen Produktion. SoZ Nr.9, 2024
"Laut Insolvenzstatistik des Statistischen Bundesamts wurden im vergangenen Jahr 2023 in Deutschland rund 176000 Unternehmen geschlossen. Davon haben 11 Prozent Insolvenz angemeldet. Immer wieder wird berichtet, dass Firmen trotz voller Auftragsbücher Insolvenz anmelden. Entweder stimmt die Gewinnmarge nicht, oder das Geld soll woanders lukrativer angelegt werden. Die Beschäftigten müssen schauen, wo sie bleiben. Manchmal bleiben sie dort, wo sie waren: In ihren Betrieben, die sie weiterführen wollen. Dario Azzellini nennt diesen Prozess, in Anlehnung an den berühmten Marxschen Begriff »Wiederaneignung«, Rückeroberung der Betriebe unter Arbeiter:innenkontrolle. Auf einer Veranstaltung in Köln im Mai dieses Jahres stellte er dies an Beispielen von Betrieben in Europa und Lateinamerika dar...."
https://www.sozonline.de/2024/09/solidarische-alternativen-zu-kapitalistischen-pleiten
https://www.azzellini.net/node/3353/nodequeue
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Kalıcı barış için Öcalan modeli, 25 Temmuz 2024, Özgur Politika
- Siyaset bilimci ve akademisyen Dario Azzellini, alternatif bir sosyalist model olarak ortaya çıkan Demokratik Konfederalizmin, ulus devletin ırkçı ayrıcalıklı etnik yapı oluşturma ayrışımın önüne geçeceğine dikkat çekiyor.
- Dario Azzellini: “Savaşın hüküm sürdüğü çok etnikli, çok dilli ve çok dinli bir bölgede Demokratik Konfederalizm modeli, alternatif bir toplumsal örgütlenme modeli olmanın ötesinde, kalıcı bir barış için de önemli bir modeldir.”
Avrupa ve Güney Amerika’da yaptığı....
https://www.ozgurpolitika.com/haberi-kalici-baris-icin-ocalan-modeli-191360
https://www.azzellini.net/node/3352
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5. Talks/Conferences (Buggerru/Sardinia)
4th Labour Transfer School: establishing links between research and labour activism
Buggerru, Sardinia, Italy, 8th to 13th June 2025
Applications will be open until the 15th of December 2024.
The Labour Transfer School (LabourTransfer) is an independent, not for profit, international initiative of global labour scholars interested in collaborations, synergies and knowledge exchange between academia and social organizations, aiming at producing emancipatory knowledge on labour and social issues. LabourTransfer gives participants a chance to exchange their research interests with academics, labour activists, artists, journalists and trade unionists from all over the world. LabourTransfer is not a traditional academic summer school or a training centre for trade unionists but a networking place for labour activism and social justice
We are aiming this year to select about seventy activists and students. In order to submit your application please fill out the form you can find on our website
More information, programmes of past LTS and registration:
https://www.labourtransferschool.org/home
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Dario Azzellini
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