Si terrà presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Educazione e Psicologia applicata il congresso "Cooperative Pathways Meeting".

L'incontro è organizzato nel quadro del progetto "Pathways to a Cooperative Market Economy" coordinato da Erik Olin Wright. Ulteriori informazioni sul progetto possono essere trovate qui.

Programma

Giovedì 8 Giugno (Aula N – Via del Santo, 26)

2 pm: Arrival and Registration

2.30pm-2.45pm – Welcome speech: Prof. Vincenzo Milanesi (Director of Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology)

2.45pm-3pm: Devi Sacchetto (University of Padova) and Erik Olin Wright (University of Wisconsin): Welcome, objectives and housekeeping issues

3 pm-4.30pm: Workers’ cooperatives in Italy: a historical perspective (Chair: Devi Sacchetto)

• Maria Grazia Meriggi (University of Bergamo), Social entreprise or resource for the conflict: Italian cooperatives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
• Tito Menzani (University of Bologna), People have the power? A historical perspective of Italian worker cooperatives

4.30pm-5pm Coffee break

5pm-6.30pm: Cooperatives and workers in contemporary Italy: precarization and reduction of labour costs? (Chair: Ferruccio Gambino, University of Padova)

• Francesco Garibaldo (Fondazione Claudio Sabattini, Bologna), Working in cooperatives: service and manufacturing sectors in Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Lisa Dorigatti (University of Milan), Workers’ cooperatives and the transformation of value chains: exploiting institutional loopholes and reducing labour costs

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Venerdì 9 giugno (Aula B2 – Via del Santo, 22)

9am-12:30am, Case studies on workers cooperative pathways in contemporary Italy (Chair: Vando Borghi, University of Bologna)

• Giovanni Orlando (University of Torino), Understanding contemporary mutualism in Italy’s recovered enterprises: The RiMaflow case as a laboratory of Utopia
• Romolo Calcagno (University of Roma La Sapienza), Recovered enterprises in Italy. An experiment of territorial reciprocity
• Massimiliano Andretta and Riccardo Guidi (University of Pisa), Bringing materialism back in: Practices of radical co-production in context
• Giulio Iocco (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), Martina Lo Cascio (University of Palermo) and Domenico Perrotta (University of Bergamo), Mutualism, agriculture and migrant workers in Southern Italy
• Francesca Forno (University of Trento) and Paolo Graziano (University of Padua), Reconnecting the social: How political consumerism enacts collective action

12:30 to 2pm: Lunch

2pm-6.30pm (Aula B3 – Via del Santo, 22): Way forward for Real Utopias project and closure, Facilitated by Erik Olin Wright

2pm-4.30pm General Theoretical perspectives 

• Tom Malleson, The Optimal Financial Arrangements for Expanding Workers Cooperatives
• Adrés Dean (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), Comparing the survival of recovered firms and worker coops created from scratch
• Andres Bernal, The New York City Worker Cooperative Initiative and Coalition: policies, politics, and social movements
• Marta Soler Gallart (University of Barcelona), Competitive Cooperativism and Mondragon
• Nathan Schneider (University of Colorado Boulder), An Internet of ownership: democratic design for the online economy

4:45-5:30pm, Erik Olin Wright: Destinations and Strategies for a cooperative market econom

5:30-6:30pm Where do we go from here?

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Sabato 10 Giugno

Site visit to the recovered factory “Ri-Maflow”, Trezzano sul Naviglio, Milan

Contatti:

Devi Sacchetto (University of Padova) – devi.sacchetto@unipd.it

Domenico Perrotta (University of Bergamo) – domenico.perrotta@unibg.it