From Economic Science Fictions to Labour as Commons 

Alternative Organisations & Transformative Practices (AOTP) Research Cluster Conference

(NB these are working panel titles now, subject to change)

9.30 - 10am Registration and Coffee

10 - 10.15am Welcome message 

Dr Nico Pizzolato and Dr Daniel Ozarow. AOTP Convenors

10.15 - 11.30am Panel 1: Labour Commons as a Challenge to the Fiction

• Professor Martin Upchurch - Middlesex University, London / The Social and Economic Origins of Utopianism and Workers Control within the British Labour Movement

• Dr Cian McMahon, NUI Galway / Peace, Partnership, and Neoliberalism: The Irish Worker Coop Development Experience

• Professor Marek Korczynski and Dr Andreas Wittel, Nottingham Trent University - The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding and Mapping Commoning within Work Relations  

11.30 - 11.45am Break and Coffee

11.45 - 1.15pm Panel 2: Workers’ Control in Greece and Argentina

• Professor Verity Burgmann, Monash University, Australia / Labour as a Commons in the Twenty-First Century: Factories without Bosses in Argentina and Greece

• Marco Gottero PhD Candidate, DeMontfort University, Leicester ‘Come together’: workers prefiguring a utopian, yet non-fictional, society

• Orestis Varkarolis, PhD Candidate, Nottingham Trent University Dr George Kokkinidis, University of Leicester Establishing a meta-organization as commoning ‘labour as commons’ 

1.15 - 2pm Lunch

2 - 3pm World Café - Participatory activity for all attendees.

If economics is a form of fiction, how can labour emancipate itself from this fiction, return to its essence, and reclaim a non-fictional economy?

3 - 4.15pm Panel 3 Post-Capitalism

Dr Demet S. Dinler – University of Sussex Imagining Post-Capitalist Exchange Organisations: Ethnographic Insights from the Turkish Cut Flower Cooperative and its Auctions

Dr William Monteith - Queen Mary University of London Ordinary work in the post-wage economy: Reflections from a Ugandan marketplace 

Dr Joseph Walton – University of Sussex Science Fiction, Participatory Economics, and the Division of Labour

4.15 - 4.30pm Break and Coffee

4.30 - 5.15pm Keynote Speaker

Dr Dario Azzellini, (ILR School at Cornell University, USA)

5.15 - 5.30pm Closing Remarks 

Dr Nico Pizzolato and Dr Daniel Ozarow. AOTP Convenors

Post Conference Reception

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