EURO-DEM Workshop: “Varieties of Workplace Democracy: from specific models to a political economy”

Programm

Wednesday, June 7 16.30 – 16.45 Welcome with coffee/tea 16.45 – 19.00 General Assembly Meeting with EURO-DEM Members and Advisors Workshop Dinner (optional) Thursday, June 8 9.00 – 9.15 Welcome with coffee/tea 9.15 – 9.30 Opening Remarks / Introduction to the Workshop 9.30-10.50 Panel 1: Controlling and owning the workplace Chair: Sophia Friedel • “On two problems for workplace democratization and their solution via a workers’ dictatorship” – Philipp Stehr (Utrecht University) • “Worker Ownership and Worker Control” – Iñigo González Ricoy (University of Barcelona) 10.50-11.20 Coffee/tea break 11.20-12.50 Keynote Lecture: “Industrial Democracy and Political Democracy” – Wolfgang Streeck (Max-Planck-Institut, Köln) and Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow) 12.50-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.20 Panel 2: Work, Democracy, and Society Chair: Roberto Frega • “The public sphere and labour: Conceptual propositions on labour-political public spheres” – Heiner Heiland (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Martin Seeliger (Institute for Work and Economy, Bremen), Sebastian Sevignani (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) • “Organizational Democracy is Dead, Long Live Organizational Democracy! Drivers for and Rationales of a Long-Living Idea” – Frederik Metzger (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe) 15.20-15.50 Coffee/tea break 15.50-17.10 Panel 3: Solidarity, trade unions and corporations Chair: Manfred Wannöffel • “Trade unions’ solidarity towards non-members: the case of posted workers” – Ilana Nussbaum Bitran, Irene Dingeldey (University of Bremen) • “Democracy in Multinational corporations: institutional opportunity structures and collective problem solving as examples of transnational solidarity” – Franziska Laudenbach (University of Bremen) 19.30 Workshop dinner Friday, June 9 9.15-9.30 Welcome tea/coffee 09.30-10.50 Panel 4: Digitalisation and collective action Chair: Frank Georgi • “Trade Union Action and Collective Bargaining on Techno-Organisational Innovations” – Angelo Moro (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, University of Burgundy), Maria Enrica Virgillito (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) • “Digitalization and Workplace Democracy: Varieties of State Regulation of the Platform Economy” – Isabel Da Costa (CNRS, IDHES) 10.50-11.20 Coffee/tea break 11.20-12.20 Keynote Lecture: “Democratizing technological change at work: Collective responses to digitalization and AI” – Virginia Doellgast (Cornell University) 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.50 Panel 5: Specific models of workplace democracy Chair: Stefan Berger • “Is Codetermination in Europe a barrier to excessive financialization? A firm level analysis” – Mustafa Erdem Sakinç (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord), Emre Gömeç (Universität Kassel) • “Contradictions of Economic Democracy: Lessons from the Swedish Wage-Earner Funds” – Shannon Ikebe (Jon Abbot College, Montréal) 14.50-15.20 Coffee/tea break 15.20-16.40 Panel 6: The need for a wider political economy Chair: Pedro Teixeira • “Beyond workplace democracy: creating conditions for freedom under the “most adequate system of compossible rights” – António Baptista (University of Minho) • “Workplace Democracy for Realists: On the Counterintuition of Negative Spillover” – Max Ridge (Princeton University) 16.40 – 17.10 Coffee/tea break 17.10 – 18.15 Roundtable discussion (TBD) Chair: TBD Image: Il Quarto Stato, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo