Principal speaker
Dr Maurizio Atzeni, Loughborough University, UK
Abstract: This seminar aims to reflect upon a number of theoretical and contemporary issues concerning the study of labour in general and of workers’ collective action in particular, in the context of globalisation.
The technological and organisational changes of the last decades associated with globalisation as a dominating mode of capital accumulation, have produced changes on labour relations whose effects are far reaching.
Labour worldwide is increasingly becoming segmented and precarious, the boundaries between formal, informal and international factors on employment and working conditions are more directly felt and are penetrating at a local level.
This reality is imposing a renewal of the field of study of industrial relations and of the sociology of work.
On the one hand there appears to be a need to go beyond conceptualisation of work still largely based around the waged work dominating the regulatory framework of post war industrialised countries.
On the other hand, the changes in the configuration of labour, by putting into question the role of trade unions as institutional mediators between workers and employers, upon up new lines of enquiries as to the extent and form of workers’ organisation and collective action in the current context of working class fragmentation.
Speaker: Dr Maurizio Atzeni is Marie Curie Research Fellow at Loughborough University, UK and CEIL/CONICET in Buenos Aires.
His current research focuses on forms and processes of workers’ resistance and organisation among precarious workers in Argentina.
He is the editor of Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism: theoretical perspectives and contemporary issues and Alternative Work Organisations and is also the author of Workplace Conflict, mobilisation and solidarity in Argentina, all books published by Palgrave.
Maurizio has been doing research on the Argentinean labour movement for more than a decade, publishing journal articles and book chapters on aspects of conflict and collective action, workers’ control and trade unionism.
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