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Category Archives: Theory
Labour as a Common-Pool Resource by Tom Walker
To better explain what it means to regard labour power as a common-pool resource, it is helpful to first take a step backward to the more conventional notion that labour is a commodity, the price of which “rises and falls … Continue reading
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Parecon Vs. Peercommony: An Exchange Between Michael Albert and Christian Siefkes | ZNet
vs. Debating Parecon (Participatory Economy) Albert: Summarizing Parecon Siefkes: My Doubts About Parecon Albert: Peercommony Doubts Parecon? Siefkes: Why I Still Doubt Albert: Debating Peercommony (Commons based peer economy) Siefkes: Summarizing Peercommony Albert: Considering Peercommony Siefkes: Peercommony Reconsidered Albert: Replying to Siefkes Reconsideration Siefkes: http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/zdebatealbsiefkes.htm
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Transnational Labour Solidarity in times of Globalisation? by Andreas Bieler
The increasing transnationalisation of production and informalisation of labour relations has undermined the traditional power resources of national labour movements (see Bieler, Lindberg and Sauerborn 2010). And yet, globalisation has not left workers without weapons. In his book Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses … Continue reading
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Rethinking Marxism Special Issue: THE COMMON AND THE FORMS OF THE COMMUNE
Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society Volume 22, Issue 3, 2010 Special Issue: THE COMMON AND THE FORMS OF THE COMMUNE
State Capture and the Democratic Movement by Kees van der Pijl
“Slowly he explained the financial crisis to her in very simple terms, emphasizing the plain patriotic line to which she would respond.” – Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) We are currently witnessing the collapse of the neoliberal project and yet, in the … Continue reading
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Stigmergy by GeorgieBC
Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent. In that … Continue reading
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The Uprising By Franco “Bifo” Berardi
On Poetry and Finance, By Franco “Bifo” Berardi Overview The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today’s precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. … Continue reading
Nowtopia by Chris Carlsson
Nowtopia is a book about a new politics of work. It profiles tinkerers, inventors, and improvisational spirits who bring an artistic approach to important tasks that are ignored or undervalued by market society. Rooted in practices that have been emerging over … Continue reading
The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World
by Ursula Huws The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces or firms, but for the … Continue reading
The Soul At Work by Franco “Bifo” Berardi
The Soul At Work From Alienation to Autonomy By Franco “Bifo” Berardi Introduction by Jason E. Smith. Translated by Francesca Cadel and Giuseppina Mecchia. Overview We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the … Continue reading
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Beyond Digital Plenty by Christian Siefkes
by Christian Siefkes Building Blocks for Physical Peer Production [Originally published in Journal of Peer Production, Issue #1: Productive Negation, July 2012.] Summary Commons-based peer production has produced astonishing amounts of freely usable and shareable information. While that is amazing in … Continue reading
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Paolo Gerbaudo presents “Tweets and the streets” | via P2P Foundation
Paolo Gerbaudo presents “Tweets and the streets” book at the MIT Center for Civic Media. Watch the book presentation here:
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Discussing Global Unionism II: The Social Network Model
Below we are re-posting the second paper of the very timely discussion on how to form truly global unions -instead of international federation of national unions. The discussion has been recently launched by the New Unionism Network and you can read other papers here. The … Continue reading
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Open Source / Libre Training Material (in progress) on Social Media for Grassroots Labour Activism | NetwOrganisation
P2P AND TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGE AT THE SHOP-FLOOR LEVEL: Social media and online networking guide for shop stewards and union activists MODULE I – prepared for and by the support of TIE-Netherlands Introduction Stronger ties with online networking Tools for cybermeetings and webinars Bottom up publishing … Continue reading
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From Labour as Commodity to Labour as a Common | via Michel Bauwens
Excerpted from a draft of an article by Hilary Wainwright: “Resistance to alienation takes many forms: from the refusal to work, humour, sabotage and conventional trade unionism, to a variety of struggles for and experiments with alternatives in and against state … Continue reading
Global unionism: The Supply-Chain Model | New Unionism Network
How do we build global unions? That is, how do working people come together across borders to support each other, to protect the environment and to start shifting the goal posts… from competition and profit towards cooperation and sustainability? We … Continue reading
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The Effects of the Open Source Movement on the Development of Politics and Society | Transform!
Knowledge Is a Common Good By Marco Berlinguer Introduction In October 2009, Transform! co-promoted the first Free Culture Forum (FCF). The FCF is one of the first attempts to create an international space of networking and strategic reflection for a wide … Continue reading
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Labour Struggle in a Peripheral Context: Debating Labour and Alternatives to Globalisation in Turkey.
via Andreas Bieler’s blog Trade unions and global restructuring The peripheral context in the world capitalist system has been a constant centre of attention in debating alternatives. It is even more so under globalisation that has shifted labour-intensive production to the … Continue reading
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Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution by John Bellamy Foster
This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Power Shift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. All of us here today, along with countless others around the world, are currently engaged in the collective struggle … Continue reading
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