in Europe and beyond, from WWII to the present

La circulation des idées et des pratiques concernant la démocratie au travail en Europe et au-delà, de la seconde guerre mondiale à nos jours

International Conference
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Dates

Jeudi 28 et vendredi 29 septembre 2023

Lieu

Université d’Évry
Bibliothèque universitaire, salle des Lumières
2 rue André Lalande
91 025 Évry Cedex

Comment venir ?

Organisation

Sophia Friedel | Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University, Bochum
Aurélie Andry | université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, IDHE.S
Frank Georgi | université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, IDHE.S
Stefan Berger | Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University, Bochum

Coordinating administrator:
Maylis Ferry | University of Évry Paris-Saclay

Partenaires :

ANR
DFG
Centre Marc Bloch
Institut für Soziale Bewegungen
IDHE.S

Programme de recherche : ANR-DFG – EURO-DEM : Workplace democracy: a European ideal?

Programme

Thursday, 28 September

9.30 – 9.45 Welcome with Coffee / Tea

9.45 – 10.00 Word of welcome by the organisers

Chair: Organisers

10.00 – 11.30 Panel 1: A dominant but contested model in Europe: Co-determination

Chair: Stefan Berger | Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University, Bochum

Sophia Friedel | Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University, Bochum
German “Mitbestimmung” as the ultimate means to democratize the workplace in Western Europe? A discourse analysis

Alexandre Bibert | Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris
French Views on Mitbestimmung from the 1950s to the early 1970s

Sara Lafuente Hernandez | European Trade Union Institute, Brussels
The conceptual discussion around Workplace Participation and its implications for EU policy developments

11.30 – 11.45 Coffee / Tea Break

11.45 – 12.45 Keynote Lecture: How to write a transnational history of workplace democracy?

Keynote Speaker: Gerd-Rainer Horn | SciencePo Centre for History, Paris

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.15 Panel 2: The circulation and persistence of the self-management model

Chair: Frank Georgi | University of Évry Paris-Saclay, IDHE.S

Celine Marty | University of Franche-Comté
The Franco-Italian exchanges on self-management between Gorz and the operaists

Dušan Marković | University of Belgrade
Serge Mallet in Yugoslavia: A story of an exchange of ideas

Guillaume Genoud | University of Évry Paris-Saclay, IDHE.S
Regionalism, nationalism and self-management: The case of the Corsican trade-ujnionists of the FDT and of the STC (1972-1991)

15.15 – 15.30 Coffee / Tea Break

15.30 – 17.00 Panel 3: Alternative models of workplace democracy? The British and ‘Nordic’ cases in transnational perspective

Chair: Sophia Friedel | Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-University, Bochum

Peter Ackers | Centre for Work, Organisation and Society, Loughborough University
Hugh Clegg – the British Pluralist 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

Haldor Byrkejflot | University of Oslo
The Nordic Model of workplace Democracy in transnational perspective, 1970-2023

17.00 – 17.30 Discussion / Concluding Remarks Day 1

19.00 Conference Dinner

Friday, 29 September

9.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Economic democracy and socialism

Chair: Pedro Teixeira | Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

Vladimir Unkovski | University of Glasgow et Aurélie Andry | université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, IDHE.S
Yugoslav Self-Management, the British Left and the Origins of the Alternative Economic Strategy

Aleksandar Miletic | Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade
Yugoslav Workers’ Self-Management and the Western European Socialist and Social-Democratic Left

Vaclav Rames | University of Prague
Czechoslovakia – How practices of economic democracy helped remove the political dominance of the Communist Party (1989)

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee / Tea Break

11.15 – 12.45 Panel 5: Ideas and policies of workplace democracy in European institutions and International Organizations

Chair: György Szell | University of Osnabrueck, Institute of Social Sciences

Isabel Da Costa | CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, IDHE.S
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 in Montreal
The ILOs approach to Workplace Democracy

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.15 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
Sarajevo 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 organisation during the long sixties

Nicola Lamri | University of Bologna ; University of Polythechnique Hauts-de-France 
The Italian reception of the Algerian self-management experiment between myth and concrete support (1962-65)

15.15 – 15.30 Coffee / Tea Break

15.30 – 16.30 Roundtable Discussion (Publication, Research Perspectives, etc)

Chair: Organisers

16.45 Cocktail