Sep 2025: Neues Buch "Sep 2025: New book "Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work" u.v.m.
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1. Neue Bücher und Forschungsberichte (Englisch, Deutsch)
2. Journal- und Buchbeiträge (Englisch, Spanisch)
3. Videos und Audios (Englisch)
4. Interviews und Journalistische Artikel (Deutsch)
5. Termine (Buffalo/US)
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0. Vorher
Hallo!
28. August 2025. Endlich ist das lang angekündigte Buch erschienen, das der großartige Genosse Marcelo Vieta und ich gemeinsam verfasst haben zu Rückeroberten Betrieben, Arbeit als Commoning und Rätedemokratie international (siehe 1):
Massimo de Angelis, University of East London, autor de Omnia Sunt Communia, schreibt über unser Buch:
"In this book, commoning comes alive through a comprehensive discussion of workers' and communities' self-management practices around the world. The conventional model of command-and-control management and exploitation is turned upside down, means of existence are reclaimed from the market and the state, and work becomes embedded in the meaningful praxis of collective life—a much-needed ray of light in these dark times."
Bei Interesse an Buchvorstellungen und Veranstaltungen bitte bei mir melde.
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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, 28. August, 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.
"Dario Azzellini and Marcelo Vieta have written a fantastic book. It’s essential reading for anyone concerned with workplace domination, and a vital guide for envisioning a post-neoliberal world."
Tom Malleson, University of Wesern Ontario, author of Against Inequality and After Occupy
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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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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. 2026. “Contemporary Communes and Council Democracy in Venezuela.” Kets, Gaard; van de Sande, Mathijs (eds.). Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire. From the Paris Commune to the Present. Advances in Democratic Theory series. London/New York: Routledge. 183-196.
In the 72 days of its existence, the Paris Commune of 1871 was a political and social laboratory where Parisians would experiment with radically democratic urban self-government. Various radical theorists and traditions have claimed the Commune as their own: from the well-known account of Karl Marx and Lenin’s State and Revolution to the anarchists Mikhail Bakunin or Peter Kropotkin, and from the council communists in Germany around the end of the Great War to the soixante-huitards in France.
In Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire Gaard Kets and Mathijs van de Sande bring together historians, sociologists, political scientists, theorists, and philosophers to reconstruct how "the Commune" has continued to serve as a source of inspiration to different movements and tendencies throughout the past 150 years, and how communalist thought and practices help us reimagine what radical democracy may look like today. Divided into three parts, contributors begin by exploring how the Paris Commune shaped political debates and influenced various theoretical oeuvres as well as political practices. Part II develops communalist ideas or strategies in a contemporary context. Part III sheds light on three different contemporary communalist practices in the Middle East, Europe, North America, and Latin America.
Bridging the gap between historical and theoretical accounts of "the Commune," this book will be enlightening for students of democracy and a valuable resource to scholars and activists interested in the problems and possibilities facing democracy today.
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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 (English)
ILPC 2025, Santiago de Chile: 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 (Deutsch)
Dario Azzellini. 2025. "Selbstverwaltete Betriebe als Chance?" − Buchvorstellung und Gespräch mit Renate Hürtgen über die Schwierigkeiten der Arbeiterkontrolle. In: express, 8/2025
https://www.express-afp.info/express-8-2025-erschienen/
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5. Termine (Buffalo/US)
September 26, 2025, Buffalo (USA), 12:30 to 2p.m.
Dario Azzellini: "Sustainability and socio-ecological transformation: Why put work at the center of a Just Transition"
At The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo, 509 O’Brian Hall, Buffalo, NY, USA
"There is a scientific consensus on the need to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Governments and capital focus on changing consumption and production patterns, but want to keep everything as it is. In production, the focus is on the “technological fix”. Technology and recycling are important for socio-ecological transformation. However, they have already failed as a solution to the environmental crisis. Changing production and consumption patterns alone will not lead to the necessary socio-ecological transformation.
In continuity with my research and publications focusing on workers and communities, I propose putting work at the center of sustainability and the socio-ecological transition..."
https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html#title-3
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