Thursday, 28 September
09.45–10.00
World of welcome
10.00–11.30
Panel 1: A dominant but contested model in Europe: Co-determiation
Chair: Stefan Berger (Institute for Social Movements, RUB, Bochum)
Sophia Friedel (Institute for Social Movements, RUB, Bochum): German “Mitbestimmung” as the ultimate means to democratize the workplace in Western Europe? A discourse analysis
Alexandre Bibert (DHI, Paris): French Views on “Mitbestimmung” from the 1950s to the 1970s
Sara Lafuente HErnandez (ETUI, Brussels): The conceptual discussion around Workplace Participation and its implications for EU policy developments
11.45–12.24
Keynote Lecture by Gerd-Rainer Horn (SciencePo Centre for History, Paris): Transnational history and workplace democracy
14.00–15.30
Panel 2: The circulation and persistence of the self-management model
Chair: Frank Georgi (University of Évry Paris-Saclay)
Céline Marty (University of Franche-Comté): The Franco-Italian exchanges on self-management between Gorz and the operates
Dusan Markovic (University of Belgrade): Serge Mallet in Yugoslavia: A story of an exchange of ideas
Guillaume Genoud (University of Évry Paris-Saclay): Regionalism, nationalism and self-management: The case of the Corsican trade-unionists of the CFDT and of the STC (1972–1991)
15.45–16.45
Panel 3: Alternative models of workplace democracy? The British and “Nordic” cases in transnational perspective
Chair: Sophia Friedel (Institute for Social Movements, RUB, Bochum)
Peter Ackers (Centre for Work, Organization and Society, Loughborough University): Hugh Clegg – the British Voluntarist approach to Industrial Democracy (1945 to 1979)
Rebecca Zahn (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow): Revealing the Role of Ideas in Labour Law's Development: Interactions between German exiled Trade Unionists and the British labour movement
16.45–17.30
Discussion and Concluding Remarks
Friday, 29 September 2023
09.50–11.00
Panel 4: Economic democracy and socialism
Chair: Pedro Teixeira (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
Vladimir Unkovski (University of Glasgow) and Aurélie Andry (University of Évry Paris-Saclay): Yugoslav Self-Management, the British Left and the Origins of the Alternative Economic Strategy
Vaclav Rames (University of Prague): Czechoslovakia – How practices of economic democracy helped remove the political dominance of the Communist Party (1989)
11.15–12.45
Panel 5: Ideas and policies of workplace democracy in European institutions and International Organizations
Chair: György Szell (University of Osnabrück, Institute of Social Sciences)
Isabel Da Costa (CNRS/ENS Paris-Saclay): Workplace Democracy through Collective Bargaining: from the national to the transnational level
Holm-Detlev Köhler (University of Oviedo): Worker participation in transnational company actions in Europe
Charles Lurquin (McGill University, Montreal): The ILOs approach to Workplace Democracy
14.00–15.30
Panel 6: Global circulations beyond Europe
Chair: Manfred Wannöffel (Joint Working Centre of the Ruhr-University Bochum and IG Metall)
Benedetto Zaccaria (University of Padova): Srajevo Caput Mundi – The Global Dimension of the 1971 “Second Congress of Yugoslav Self-Managers”
Gabriela Scodeller (Institute of Human, Social and Environmental Sciences (Argentina) and National University of Cuyo): Dialogues regarding self-management search and reception from a Latin-American labour organization during the long sixties
Nicola Lamri (University of Bologna / University of Polytechnique Hauts-de-France): The Italian reception of the Algerian self-management experiment between myth and concrete support (1962–1965)
15.45–16.45
Roundtable Discussion