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Aug-Sep 2025, Newsletter Dario Azzellini auf Deutsch - ca. 4 x im Jahr (auch auf Englisch oder Spanisch erhältlich)
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0. Vorher
1. Neue Bücher und Forschungsberichte (Englisch, Deutsch)
2. Journal- und Buchbeiträge (Englisch, Spanisch)
3. Videos und Audios (Englisch, Spanisch)
4. Interviews und Journalistische Artikel
5. Termine (Brüssel/Belgien, Buggeru/Sardinien, Wien/Österreich)
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0. Vorher
Hallo!
Augrund unvorhergesehener Absagen, haben wir noch Plätze frei für die 4. Labour Transfer School Buggerru, Sardinien, Italien, 8. bis 13. Juni 2025.
Mehr Informationen und das vorläufige Programm unter 5)
Schnell anmelden! https://www.labourtransferschool.org/
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Endlich. Im Juli erscheint das lang angekündigte Buch, das der großartige Genosse Marcelo Vieta und ich gemeinsam verfasst haben zu Rückeroberten Betrieben, Arbeit als Commoning und Rätedemokratie international:
"Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over"Routledge, 290 Pages, July 27, 2025 (eine günstigere Soft-Cover-Ausgabe wird folgen)
Als wir mit dem Schreiben des Buches fertig waren, umfasste es über 500 Seiten und schloss Kommunen und direkte Selbstverwaltung mit ein. Wir glauben, dass die direkte Selbstverwaltung, die politisch-administrative Kontrolle, mit der Kontrolle der Produktionsmittel einhergehen muss. Am Ende haben wir uns entschieden, zwei Bücher zu veröffentlichen. Es wird also bald ein weiteres Buch zum Thema Kommunen und Selbstverwaltung folgen …
Richard (Rick) D. Wolff schreibt über unser Buch:
"The world shakes as the US empire and its domestic capitalism decline together, as BRICS rise and Europe falls, and as climate change and artificial intelligence all add up reorder nearly everything Most of those who think, teach, and manage workplaces (private and state) mostly continue unperturbed to accept and simply assume the employer vs employee mode of organizing workplaces. This important book joins a growing literature that breaks with all that. Workers can and already have taken over and run workplaces democratically, collectively, and successfully. The theories and empirical records based on those practices are available. This book takes them important steps further. It shows how and why ending the employer-employee organization of workplaces is a necessary part of real solutions to capitalism's accumulated and unmet problems."
Bei Interesse an Buchvorstellungen und Veranstaltungen bitte melden.
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Es war mir eine große Ehre, gemeinsam mit Matt Hubber, Alessandra Mezzadri und Carlos Eduardo Martins eingeladen worden zu sein eine der Eröffnungsreden zur 43. International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) in Santiago de Chile im April zu halten. Link zur Videoaufzeichnung unter Punkt 5.
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1. Neue Bücher und Forschungsberichte (English, Deutsch)
Dario Azzellini and Marcelo Vieta
Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over
Routledge, 290 Pages, July 14, 2025 (a more affordable paperback will follow later)
This book investigates the return of workers’ self-management in recent decades as responses to recurring neoliberal crises. In particular, the book homes in on worker-recuperated enterprises (WREs), a promising form of workers’ self-organization whereby workers restart troubled, bankrupt, or shuttered companies as cooperatives or other forms of democratic workplace.
The book argues that WREs are prefigurative of new forms of work based on equality and sustainability. Framed by the concepts of autogestión, the labour commons, and prefigurative ethico-political practices, the book argues that WREs contribute to the construction of more directly democratic community economies. Drawing on a range of contemporary case studies from numerous countries in the Global South and North, as well as new theories of workers’ self-management, the book contributes a critical development, political economic, and class-struggle Marxist perspective to the re-emergent labour question within anti-systemic social movements, while theorizing the transformative nature of WREs for workers, work organizations, and communities.
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Azzellini, Dario. 2024. Crowdwork: Kontext und Kompetenzentwicklung in den Ländern Italien, den Niederlanden, Schweden und dem Vereinigten Königreich. Working Papers No. 14. Working Papers des Forschungsclusters OPAL der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität.
Die vorliegende Untersuchung zu Crowdwork bietet einen Überblick zu den Funktionen und Praxen der Gestaltung von Crowdworking-Plattformen im Allgemeinen und in vier Ländern Europas (Italien, Niederlande, Schweden und Vereinigtes Königreich) im Besonderen.
https://openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de/entities/publication/17002
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Atzeni, Maurizio, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Phoebe Moore, Ursula Apitzsch. 2023. Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work. UK, E-Elgar
"This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work. Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, this Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the relations between different forms of work, exploitation, class configuration and worker resistance. With insights from global experts across the social sciences, it examines changes in technology, geographies of production, and the dynamics of the global capitalist political economy to map modern configurations of work. Using ongoing empirical qualitative research, contributors explore key issues such as capital accumulation, migration, digital work, trade unionism and reproductive labour. There is a particular focus on perspectives from the Global South, with in-depth analyses of class and work in countries and regional economic blocs used to explore the dynamics between the local and the global."
http://www.azzellini.net/node/3320
Kleiner Tipp: Schaut mal auf researchgate unter meinem Namen...
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Azzellini, Dario. 2023. Sustainable Work and Just Transition: Policies and labour movement actors in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Spain, Poland, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Geneva
https://rosalux-geneva.org/sustainable-work-and-just-transition/
https://www.azzellini.net/node/3327
Free download at: https://rosalux-geneva.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Dario_Azzellini_Report_JT_RLS_final-1.pdf
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2. Akademische Artikel: Journal- und Buchbeiträge (Englisch, Spanisch)
Azzellini, Dario; Brandl, Sebastian; Matuschek, Ingo. 2025. “Sustainable work and industrial 85-107. relations in Europe.” Industrielle Beziehungen. 31:1.
The socio-ecological transformation is a key issue on the political agenda of the EU and its member states, as seen in the Green Deal. However, despite joint declarations, there are differences in the national transition paths. The UNDP Development Report 2015 calls for a transition to sustainable work, defined as work that promotes human development and reduces or eliminates negative impacts for both present and future generations. The approaches deal in different ways with elements of industrial relations as systemic orientations or ideologies that are more or less shared nationally by the specific actors (politics, business, trade unions and civil society). This article examines the extent to which there is a normative consensus in the member states on the ideas and objectives of a Green Deal or sustainable work as well as how industrial relations are addressed. The analysis is based on various literature reviews on sustainable work, socio-ecological transformation and just transition. The perspective is contextualised by industrial relations theories, which assess the inclusion of the topos of sustainable work in the Green Deal and whether it goes beyond it. To this end, the article presents different development paths preferred by actors from specific country clusters, and concludes by discussing the embedding of civil society movements in industrial relations. The result is that trade unions and civil society actors in particular must shape the content of a just transition and ensure its implementation.
https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-2779-2024-1-85
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Azzellini, Dario. 2025. “Contemporary Communes and Council Democracy in Latin America.” Socialism and Democracy. DOI: 10.1080/08854300.2024.2435067.
Ideas and practices of communal self-administration are widespread in Latin America, especially among indigenous and Afro-American communities, stemming from ancestral customs. Commune-like self- administration predates the Paris Commune and has surfaced repeatedly throughout history. It was present in the wars of independence, in peasant uprisings, in revolts and revolutions in the early 20th century and in the struggles of its second half. The idea of the commune as democratically self-governed space corresponds to the framework of alternative imagination of many popular movements and the experiences of building popular power...
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2024.2435067
50 pdfs des Artikels gratis unter diesem Link (bitte nur nutzen, wenn ihr keinen anderen Zugang habt):
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BXBM2EYQ55UGUTJJZZHT/full?target=10.1080/08854300.2024.2435067
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Azzellini, Dario. “Factory Takeovers in the European Mediterranean Area: Self-Managed Companies in France, Italy and Greece.” CESCONTEXTO. 36:38-46.
"Over the past 15 years Workers Recuperated Companies (WRCs) emerged in several European countries as Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Turkey and eventually other countries ... "
Article: https://www.azzellini.net/node/3367
CESCONTEXTO 36: https://ces.uc.pt/pt/
publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/cescontexto/numeros/debates-36
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Azzellini, Dario. 2025. “La democracia consejista y comunera en contra del Estado-nación.” Curto López, Saúl (ed.). La emergencia de la Democracia Comunal. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch.
"Este volumen, además de ser una compilación de estudios sobre realidades comunitarias, también es una primera aportación tanto teórica como práctico-empírica para situar la democracia comunal como un posible campo de trabajo e investigación en las próximas décadas. Pensamos que esta posibilidad, no sólo existe, sino que, además, tiene sentido y pertinencia en la situación social que vive el mundo..."
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Azzellini, Dario. “Entre la crisis climática, ecológica y social del planeta: ¿aún existen caminos para la resistencia y las utopías?" RBBA. Revista Binacional Brasil Argentina: diálogo entre as ciências. 13.2:1-25
"En el siguiente artículo realizo un breve recuento de las crisis múltiples de la humanidad, centrándome en la catástrofe climática y la inefectividad estructural de las contramedidas. Como consecuencia se propone el trabajo sustentable en el centro de las iniciativas para la transición socio-ecológica y critico el concepto de empleos verdes. Se introduce la relación Norte-Sur, y clase y género Como variables necesarias de una visión holística de sostenibilidad para una transición justa. Y en este contexto se aboga por una revalorización y decomodificación del trabajo..."
Artículo: https://www.azzellini.net/node/3364
RBBA 13.2: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/rbba/article/view/15568
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3. Videos und Audios (ILPC, Santiago de Chile)
ILPC 2025: Keynote Lectures 3 - Matt Huber - Darío Azzellini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gUY_641as4
00:00:00 - 00:49:40 Matt Huber, Syracuse University, USA, Proletarian Ecology in an Age of Planetary Production
00:50:00 - 01:43:45 Dario Azzellini, Cornell University, USA, Putting Work at the centre of the socio-cological transition
01:44:00 - 01:59:00 Comments Eric Campos, CUT Chile (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Chile)
01:59:30 - 02:50:00 Discussion Matt Huber, Dario Azzellini and Eric Campos
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4. Interviews und Journalistische Artikel
Diesmal nicht....
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5. Termine (Brüssel/Belgien, Buggeru/Sardinien, Wien/Österreich)
Thursday 5 June 2025, 12:00 – 19:00, Brussels and online
Global Perspectives on Labour, Climate Policy and Just Transition
Hans Böckler Foundation & ETUI
Representation of the State of Lower Saxony, Rue Montoyer 61, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
The hybrid conference will present research findings from unions' Just Transition policies and initiatives across 14 countries worldwide from a multi-year research project.
Dario Azzellini will be presenting on the case of Colombia
Program and more information: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1077/global-perspectives-on-climate-policy-and-just-transition
Register at: https://www.boeckler.de/de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen-2718-just-transition-conference-67713.htm
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Buggerru, Sardinien, Italien, 8. bis 13. Juni 2025
Labour Transfer School: Verbindungen zwischen Forschung und Arbeitsaktivismus herstellen
Wie jedes Jahr werde ich mit vielen wunderbaren Menschen in Buggerru sein. Augrund unvorhergesehener Absagen, haben wir noch Plätze frei! Schnell anmelden!
Die Labour Transfer School (LabourTransfer) ist eine unabhängige, gemeinnützige, internationale Initiative globaler Arbeitswissenschaftler:innen, die an Kooperationen, Synergien und Wissensaustausch zwischen Wissenschaft und sozialen Organisationen interessiert sind und darauf abzielen, emanzipatorisches Wissen über Arbeits- und Sozialfragen zu produzieren. LabourTransfer gibt den Teilnehmer:innen die Möglichkeit, ihre Forschungsinteressen mit Akademiker:innen, Arbeitsaktivist:innen, Künstler:innen, Journalist:innen und Gewerkschafter:innen aus der ganzen Welt auszutauschen. LabourTransfer ist keine traditionelle akademische Sommerschule oder ein Ausbildungszentrum für Gewerkschafter:innne, sondern ein Netzwerkplatz für Arbeitsaktivismus und soziale Gerechtigkeit.
Weitere Informationen und Registrierung: https://www.labourtransferschool.org/hom
Provisional program for the LTS 4, June 8-13, 2025, in Buggerru, Sardinia
First day: Participants led session (small groups workshop on thematic areas)
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Grassroots and trade unions activism: learning from each other? Vladimir Nieddu and Olivier Pira, SUD, France; CEDRA, Slovenia; Julia Soul, Taller de Estudios Laborales and CEIL CONICET (Argentina); Samee Ullah, Lieferando, Germany; Joe Durbridge, IWGB (UK); Jon de las Heras, GEZKI, Basque Country
Coordination: Maurizio Atzeni, CEIL/CONICET (Argentina) and Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile)
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The many labour of social reproduction: Rekha Chakravarty, CIVIDEP, India; Rosalia Pellegrini, Asociacion Mujeres de la Tierra (Argentina); Katja Praznik, University at Buffalo (USA); Maryuri Gonzalez, ADL, Italy
Coordination: Alessandra Mezzadri, SOAS (UK)
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Labour, Unions, Militarization and War: Morocco; Spain, Italy....
Coordination: NN
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Experiences and strategies of labour movements in authoritarian states: Ali Yalçın Göymen (Turkey), Argentina, Kenya
Coordination: NN
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Workers for a Just transition: Struggles and Alliances: Oscar Pineda, USO (oil workers union, Colombia), Colombia; Ana Catalina Herrera (asesora sindical en transición justa, Colombia), Greta Waltenberg, Ver.di/Friday for future, Germany; Rune Bennike (University of Southern Denmark).
Coordination: Dario Azzellini, Cornell University (USA)
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Just transition and industrial reconversion - Workers’ experiences and , democratic planning: Aaron Niederman, Rosa Luxemburg; Luca Pizzuto, MP Sinistra Futura region of Sardinia; Pino Cabras, former national MP and SFIRS (Regional Bank for Industrial Projects); (Asesora sindical en transición justa, Colombia), Lili Vankó (CEU, Vienna)
Coordination: Marcelo Vieta, University of Toronto
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Labour law and activism:; Daniel Weidmann, unions labour lawyer, (Germany); Eleanor Kirk, University of Glasgow
Coordination: Piera Loi, Universita’ di Cagliari (Italy)
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Workers education and workers led research: LTS; Julia Soul, Taller de Estudios Laborales and CEIL CONICET (Argentina); Adriana Yee Meyberg, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany; Francesco Pontarelli (Chair in Community, Adult and Worker Education (CAWE) at the University of Johannesburg)Coordination: Jamie Woodcock, KCL and Notes from Below, (UK)Art as labour and Art as Labour emancipation: Jaka Primorac, Ella Jones, visual artist, Phd Greenwich University; Amanda Tobin Ripley; Nayan Iyoti; Ana Cvelfar, dancer/CEDRA activistCoordination: Katja Praznik, University at Buffalo (USA)
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Investigative Labour Journalism and radical publishing: Sara Manissera, Moritz Drumel; Fabian Grieger; Cedra
Coordination: Jamie Woodcock
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A lens on workers’ activism from the Global South : various participants with an activist/unionist profile from Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco, Nepal
Coordination: Patrick Neveling, Bournemouth University (UK)
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Video games workers: John Paul Donnelly, IWGB, Scotland; Nao Argouse, STJV, France; participants from the tech sector;
Coordination: Jamie Woodcock
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Health and Labour: Julia Soul; Patrizio Tonelli, Instituto de Sanidad Publica Universidad de Chile; Jan Wintgens, People’s health movement, Germany; Bill Muriuki, pharmaceutical union, Kenya
Coordination: NN
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Labour foundations and activism: Robin, Otto Brenner-IG Metall; Keiran Goddard, Alex Ferry; Steffen Vogel Oxfam Germany; Fabian Grieger, Stiftung Umverteilen
Coordination: Maurizio Atzeni
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Crowdfunding/Stephen Bouquin Fund
More information and registration: https://www.labourtransferschool.org/home
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19. Juni bis 21. Juni 2025. WUK, Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien, Österreich
25 Jahre Attac – Das Festival
Donnerstag, 19.6.2025, 19:00: "Revolution: Partei oder Bewegung" - Keynote und Diskussion mit Mariana Rodrigues (Climáximo, Portugal) und Dario Azzellini (Soziologe, Autor)
Freitag, 20.06. 10:00-13:00: Workshop "Attac Phase 1 - 2000-2008 mit internationalen Aktivist*innen und Attac Gründer*innen" (mit Dario Azzellini)
Programm und weitere Informationen: www.attac.at/25
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