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Abstract submission for the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is open until 30 September 2022.
The congress will be held at Melbourne from 25 June to 1 July 2023.

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology

I’m organizing three sessions for this congress and invite everybody to subit abstracts to thesse sessions. One is about

Democratic Participation and Self-Management vs Authoritarianism: Theoretical Reflections and Propositions

RC10 scholarship has traditionally sought to counter authoritarianism by advocating sustained participation. It has emphasised the development of democratic participation in diverse forums of political, economic, and social interaction. Those debates trace their origin to movements for democratic inclusion of all in the political and social life of their communities and workplaces. That included trade union organization, collective negotiation, self-organized cooperatives, and co-management of decisions, as well as participation in civic, community, and neighbourhood decision-making. The postwar achievements of a more politicized working class, gained through the organization of labour interests in trade unions and political parties, extended confidence for a further widening of democracy in the economic sphere. Concerted political demand generated institutional developments toward industrial and organizational democracy in various forms across many countries. The success of those democratic movements was met by the insurgence of neoliberalism in the latter 20th century and its socio-economic effects and inequalities.
The current rise of authoritarianism in many guises is enabled by an erosion of democratic institutions of participation at the workplace and in the political field. However current crises of public discontent also present opportunities for democratic revitalisation. The societal task of the constraint of tendencies of domination, conflict, and systemic exploitation requires the effort of democratic renewal and socio-cultural innovation.

This session calls for theoretical reflections and propositions on the resources of democratic participation, industrial democracy and self-management to counter authoritarianism by the revitalisation of democratic conceptions and practices at the workplace and/or in the political arena.

RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee)

Language: English, French and Spanish
Session Type: Oral

Session Organizers:

  • Catherine Casey, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
  • Isabel da Costa, CNRS, France
  • Stefan Lücking, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Germany

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Kategorien Mitbestimmung, Soziologie

Datum

Abstract submission for the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is open until 30 September 2022.
The congress will be held at Melbourne from 25 June to 1 July 2023.

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology

I’m organizing three sessions for this congress and invite everybody to subit abstracts to thesse sessions. The first is about

Organizing Against Authoritarianism in the Platform and on-Demand Economy

Platform work is a new form of authoritarian organization based on the illusion of “neutral” management through artificial intelligence (AI). Amazon for example, advertised as AI the services provided by its poorly paid crowdworkers in its crowdsourcing website Mechanical Turk. In all forms of platform work the power relations between clients, workers and platform providers are obfuscated by the intermediation of algorithmic management creating the illusion that work processes are optimised on purely technical grounds.

Workers in the platform and on-demand economy have organized in many countries against this new work regime. Their bottom-up organizing is most often based on coalitions of labour, community and interest groups. In some cases, workers have set up platform cooperatives to gain control over their working conditions, remuneration and business decisions as well as over the algorithms used by the platform.

In order to improve working conditions in the platform economy it is important to tackle the imbalanced power relations between clients, platforms and workers. Public debate is increasingly focusing on the status of platform workers either as employees protected by existing labour laws or on basic labour rights for self-employed freelancers. Furthermore, platform workers are fighting for information and participation rights with regard to the design and application of the algorithms that control their jobs and work processes.

This session invites communications on how platform workers organize with a focus on their recent social movements and demands, how they tackle imbalances of power, and how they can achieve democratic participation regarding algorithmic management.

RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee)

Language: English, French and Spanish
Session Type: Oral

Session Organizers:

  • Stefan Lücking, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Germany
  • Isabel da Costa, CNRS, France

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Kategorien Soziologie, Industrielle Beziehungen

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Acatech-Debatte: Fit for Future Work: Von Arbeit in Arbeit – Mitarbeitenden zukunftsfähige Beschäftigungsperspektiven bieten

Am Donnerstag, dem 21. Juli 2022, nehme ich an der nächsten Debatte im Rahmen der Acatech-Reihe Fit for Future Work teil.

Gemeinsam wollen wir darüber diskutieren, wie Digitalisierung den Übergang „von Arbeit in Arbeit“ unterstützen kann und wie sie die Arbeit verändert. Anhand praktischer Beispiele wollen wir aufzeigen, wie die Digitalisierung neue Chancen für Arbeit schafft, wie Unternehmen mit der Veränderung umgehen und welche Rahmenbedingungen erforderlich sind.

Mit mir diskutieren:

- Dr. Thomas Ogilvie, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Mitglied des Vorstands, Bereich Personal, Arbeitsdirektor
- Dr. Ariane Reinhart, Continental AG, Vorständin für Personal und Nachhaltigkeit
- Prof. Dr. Jutta Rump, Institut für Beschäftigung und Employability in Ludwigshafen (IBE), Direktorin

Die Moderation übernimmt Frank Riemensperger aus dem acatech Präsidium

Virtuelle Deabtte am Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2022, von 17:00 bis 18:30 Uhr.
Anmeldung bei Acatech.

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Kategorien Digitalisierung, Mitbestimmung

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Lücking, Stefan:
Democratizzare il mondo del lavoro e la società. La Hans-Böckler-Stiftung e la ricerca sindacale in Germania.
In: Masiero, Nicoletta (Hrsg.): Ricerca sociale e azione sindacale: fra reciprocità e confronto. Roma: Futura, 2022 (Saggi), S. 167–179.
ISBN 978-88-230-2412-0

Ricerca sociale e azione sindacale La Fondazione Hans Böckler è un’istituzione particolare, strettamente legata al modello tedesco di co-determinazione, sia in termini di mandato che di struttura e metodi di lavoro, che di finanziamento. Mitbestimmung di solito tradotto «co-determinazione» è un termine difficile da tradurre. Si riferisce sia ai diritti di partecipazione democratica dei lavoratori sanciti dalle leggi sulla co-determinazione e dalla legge sulla costituzione delle opere, sia alla co-determinazione come principio democratico di formazione della società: ognuno dovrebbe essere coinvolto nelle decisioni che lo riguardano. La Fondazione Hans Böckler conduce quindi una ricerca sindacale con l’obiettivo di democratizzare il mondo del lavoro e la società.

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Kategorien Mitbestimmung