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

June 08 | 09:00

This workshop is organised within the framework of the research project “Workplace democracy: a European ideal? Discourses and practices about the democratization of work after 1945 (EUR-DEM)”, led by Stefan Berger (Institute for Social Movements / Ruhr- University Bochum) and Roberto Frega (CNRS / Centre Marc Bloch). This project is jointly funded by the ANR (Agence National de la Recherche) and DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Convenor of the workshop: Pedro Teixeira (Centre Marc Bloch)

Contact

Pedro Alexandre Teixeira
pedro.teixeira  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de

Partners

IDHE.S -EVRY Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie et de la Société, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Program

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

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