From Economic Science Fiction to Labour as Commons

Friday 21 June 2019, 9.30am-5.30pm

Middlesex University, Hendon Town Hall, Committee Room 1, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BG (Nearest stations Hendon Central tube, or Hendon Thameslink)
 
What’s next after capitalism? Join us for this day of study on forms of economic and societal organisations alternative to capitalism. As suggested by William Davies et al. in the edited anthology Economic Science Fictions (2018), capitalism might be reconceptualised as an eminently fictional form of how social life should be organised that bears little relations to actual societal needs.   Currently, around the globe we have seen the emergence of alternative, non-capitalist production models based on principles of worker democracy, self-management, horizontal decision-making that are emancipatory and solidaristic in nature.   This conference, hosted by the Alternative Organisations and Transformative Practices Research Group at Middlesex University, London seeks to brings together the two parallel literatures of ‘economic science fictions’ and ‘labour as commons’ into dialogue by inviting the speakers and the audience to inquire into how can society move away from this dystopian economic science fiction via the practice of the labour commons.   

Tickets: Register online here to reserve your place £10 (Students £5). Participation includes lunch and refreshments and wine reception).
 
You can register here: http://www.tiny.cc/1ctu6y Join the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/331338087556073/
 
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: From workplace Democracy to Labour Commons
                                                  Chair: Dr Anne Daguerre

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

Sara Lafuente Hernandez, PhD Candidate, European Trade Union Institute, 
Assessing forms of democracy at work: why, what and how

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
                                                   Chair: Sue Mew
 
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
                                                Chair: Dr Leandro Sepulveda- Ramirez
 
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)
           Back to the Future
 
5.15-5.30pm                       Closing Remarks
           Dr Nico Pizzolato and Dr Daniel Ozarow. AOTP Convenors
 
Post Conference Reception

Best wishes

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Dr. Daniel Ozarow
Senior Lecturer (Research & Teaching) in HRM

Department of Management, Leadership & Organisations.
Deputy Head - Latin American Studies Research Group
Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BT, UK
T: +44 (0) 208 411 3535
W: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/ozarow-daniel 
Convenor - Argentina Research Network UK http://argentinaresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/
Chair - Jubilee Debt Campaign, Academic Advisory Network http://jubileedebt.org.uk/about/academic-advisory-network 

***My new book*** 

(2019) The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt: Comparative Insights from Argentina. New York/Oxon: Routledge 
https://www.routledge.com/The-Mobilization-and-Demobilization-of-Middle-Class-Revolt-Comparative/Ozarow/p/book/9780815358183

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