Spectrum, trajectory and the role of the state in workers' self-management

Upchurch, Martin; Daguerre, Anne; Ozarow, Daniel

doi:10.1080/0023656x.2013.843840

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“…It has also documented how WRE workers learned about selfmanagement on the shop floor in a rather informal manner (Vieta 2010; and ultimately created -through their practice -a unique organizational model of self-management (Vieta, 2012) that could prefigure a self-managed economic system (Vieta, 2014b). Finally, the literature has also highlighted the importance of the broader social dimension of WREs by showing the roles of the state and civil society in the movement (e.g., Upchurch et al, 2014).…”

Section: Contributions and Implications For Wre Studies: Documenting mentioning

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Supporting alternative organizations? Exploring scholars’ involvement in the performativity of worker-recuperated enterprises

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. performativity' concept that we define as scholars' subversive interventions that can involve the production of new subjectivities, the constitution of new organizational models and/or the bridging of these models to current social movements. Our results uncover the multiple roles of academics in relation to these three facets and highlight the key interactions of these roles. Permanent repository linkIn so doing, our analysis advances prior studies of WREs by clarifying how academics can support alternative organizations while offering a renewed conceptualization of critical performativity as a multifaceted process through which academics and workers interact.

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Section: Contributions and Implications For Wre Studies: Documenting mentioning

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“…There is extensive literature on WRCs. The attention of the authors has focused on workers' experience of management, control of the labour process and new forms of industrial relations within the factories (Aiziczon, 2009;Deledicque and Moser, 2006); politics and experiences of resistance and mobilisation strategies (Picchetti, 2002;Fajn, 2003;Meyer and Chaves, 2008); workers' subjectivity (Fajn, 2003;Shukaitis, 2010); legalities and politicalities (Carpintero et al, 2002;Martínez and Vocos, 2002;Echaide, 2006;Vietta and Ruggieri, 2009), the relation between WRCs and the market (Atzeni and Ghigliani, 2007); and WRCs and the state policy (Dinerstein, 2007;Upchurch et al, 2014;Ozarow and Croucher, 2014).…”

Section: The Factories and The Workers: Hope And Self-managementmentioning

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The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America

Dinerstein

2015

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Non-governmental public action (NGPA) by and for disadvantaged and marginalised people has become increasingly significant over the past two decades. This new book series is designed to make a fresh and original contribution to the understanding of NGPA. It presents the findings of innovative and policy-relevant research carried out by established and new scholars working in collaboration with researchers across the world. The series is international in scope and includes both theoretical and empirical work.The series marks a departure from previous studies in this area in at least two important respects. First, it goes beyond a singular focus on developmental NGOs or the voluntary sector to include a range of non-governmental public actors such as advocacy networks, campaigns and coalitions, trade unions, peace groups, rights-based groups, cooperatives and social movements. Second, the series is innovative in stimulating a new approach to international comparative research that promotes comparison of the so-called developing world with the so-called developed world, thereby querying the conceptual utility and relevance of categories such as North and South.

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“…The occupation was deemed to be a normal stage in the process of responding to restructuring plansas part of a portfolio of political, economic and communication strategies. Occupations were assimilated in part into the mainstream of union action for those on the left -including both majority and minority elements, though the socialist/social democratic Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) was less inclined to use such approaches -thus making it difficult to study or record them as "exceptional" moments [1].…”

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From action to communication?

Lucio

2011

Employee Relations

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Purpose -The relative absence of worker occupations in recent years in a context of major restructuring and unemployment has raised issues in Spain as to the changing nature of specific forms of direct action. This paper seeks to argue that it is important, in the case of Spain, to discuss how worker occupations have been changing and developing over time if the changing pattern, character and impact of worker unrest and direct action is to be understood. Design/methodology/approach -The research materials for this paper are based on a series of meetings and interviews with union officers and activists that draw on various projects on union development in Spain during the years and the study of a range of secondary texts. Findings -The paper suggests that, as well as discussing questions of motives, whether economic or political, accounting for the socio-economic context and the changing nature of the workforce in terms of its degree of concentration, the changing nature of labour market stability, and the relationship of workers to "stable" workplaces and work is required. Additionally, there is a need to account for how workers reference and recall (or not) previous modes of mobilising and actions. Practical implications -Discussing worker occupations should involve issues of political purpose, economic context, the changing nature of work and workers, and the role of memory and historical framing if an appreciation of their varying nature and presence within the landscape of labour relations is to be made. Hence, a multi-dimensional understanding of the context of worker action is required. Social implications -The implications of the paper are that conflict of work needs to be understood in broader terms, and that worker related activities can be highly innovative. Originality/value -The paper examines union and worker responses to the current recession in Spain and focuses on the role and context of unofficial approaches, especially worker occupations, to the changing workplace.

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Spectrum, trajectory and the role of the state in workers' self-management

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Supporting alternative organizations? Exploring scholars’ involvement in the performativity of worker-recuperated enterprises

Supporting alternative organizations? Exploring scholars’ involvement in the performativity of worker-recuperated enterprises

The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America

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