[WSF-Discuss] Decent Work Analysis - and Beyond

[Judith Blau]

Greetings,

I believe its useful to highlight that social scientists, notably the 
late Seymour Melman, who wrote about workplace democracy and worker 
ownership share a vision of decent work. This is a long and complex 
history, of course, but in contemporary times there is Mondragon and the 
Argentine Recovered Factories, but as Melman described in _After 
Capitalism_ workplace democracy and worker cooperatives are growing in 
numbers in the Americas and Europe. Via Campesina advocates the same for 
agriculturalists.

Judith

Guy Standing wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Wishing you a Happy 2009, in which a progressive vision takes shape in the wake of the end of globalization, I am attaching the PDF version of the ILO article. Let me know that you can read it. The forthcoming book tries to take forward the critique of labourism and recover the progressive core of what I had hoped would be the thrust of 'decent (sic) work'. That is also done in an article on labour recommodification in the global transformation, in a book on Polanyi published a few months ago.
>
> I envy you the Belem Forum. I hope it goes well.
>
> All the very best,
>
> Guy
>    
>
> Guy Standing
> Professor of Economic Security
> University of Bath, UK
> Professor of Labour Economics
> Monash University, Australia
>  
> Co-President, Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Waterman [mailto:p.waterman at inter.nl.net] 
> Sent: 27 December 2008 20:38
> To: Edward Webster
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> Subject: Re: Decent Work Analysis - and Beyond
>
> Having provoked a discussion about Decent Work, the ITUC and ILO 
> Connection, I find I do not have on my mahcine in Lima a copy of the Guy 
> Standing article from Development and Change (my old house journal).
>
> This document has been available on the web somewhere and I may have 
> copied through to one or more of you folks.
>
> If someone has an online copy of this - including Guy himself of course 
> - I would appreciate a copy - preferably b4 New Year.
>
> Thanx,
>
> Peter W
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