Isabelle Ferreras

Isabelle Ferreras
Catholic University of Louvain | UCLouvain · Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies

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Cet article cherche à identifier les contributions et limites de l’expérimentation française « Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée ». Il situe son ambition dans la contribution aux trois axes historiques de l’émancipation : la démocratisation, la démarchandisation et la définition du modèle de prospérité. Cet examen prend appui sur les rapport...
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In the context of capitalist democracies, the contradiction between people's expectations of equality and the subordination they experience at work is intense. I argue that it is the defining experience of the contradiction between capitalism and democracy. Capitalism grants political rights to property owners, while democracy grants political righ...
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The presentation presents theoretical, methodological and normative consideration regarding research on labour/decarbonization transitions. The associated paper (in progress) takes issue with reductionism in 'twin transition' discourse, and develops advances towards a more refined and empowering discourse.
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LAMARTRA addresses the interlinkages between transition processes of decarbonisation and ‘labour market’ - understood more broadly as work and employment. The salience of these interlinkages is increasing as processes of low-carbon transition are progressing beyond their initial stages of pioneering and niche markets. This salience speaks from the...
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Environmental destruction and social inequalities are increasingly urgent challenges. How can corporations, which have played a key role in creating and reproducing these problems, be part of the solution? In this paper, we advance that a shift to more democratic forms of organizing within corporations may be an important part of this transition. W...
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An urgent and deeply resonant case for the power of workplace democracy to restore balance between economy and society. What happens to a society-and a planet-when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding, and they have been laid bare by the social effects of COVID-19. The narrative of "essential...
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Julkaisemme tässä tarkastetun suomennoksen ”Work: Democratize, Decommodify, Remediate” -manifestista. Arto Laitisen ja Olli Herrasen suomennos julkaistiin alun perin lyhennettynä Helsingin Sanomissa 16.5.2020 sekä lyhentämättömänä Osallisuusmedian verkkosivulla.
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This article discusses the experimentation led by SMart in Belgium, a worker cooperative founded to support freelance artists – and subsequently extended to other freelancers – with the aim of helping them reduce four forms of uncertainties that affect such workers. Over the past 20 years, SMart has sought to secure broader access to social protect...
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In different national, institutional and organisational contexts, and in conditions of uncertainty, worker organisations, old and new, are experimenting in response to the major fault lines of change they face. This introduction to the special issue focuses on these processes of experimentation: the disruption of traditional forms of regulation of...
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Dans différents contextes nationaux, institutionnels et organisationnels, et dans un contexte d’incertitude, diverses formes d’organisation de travailleurs, anciennes et nouvelles, mènent des expérimentations en réponse aux lignes de fracture majeures des changements auxquelles elles sont confrontées. L’introduction de ce numéro spécial se concentr...
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In unterschiedlichen nationalen, institutionellen und organisationalen Kontexten und unter ungewissen Bedingungen versuchen traditionelle und neue Arbeitnehmerorganisationen Antworten auf die Frage zu finden, wie mit den großen Konfliktlinien der Veränderungen umzugehen ist, mit denen sie konfrontiert werden. Die Einleitung zu dieser Themenausgabe...
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La relation au sein de l’entreprise est despotique. Or l’entreprise est le siège du rapport capital/travail, la pierre d’angle du capitalisme et par là un lieu hautement politique. Défendre une démocratie qui s’étende à l’entreprise est un moyen de provoquer une mutation structurelle de nos sociétés. Un outil de cette évolution pourrait être le bic...
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On the 14th of December 2017, the Re-Bel initiative invited the participants in its 15th public event to reflect on the following questions: “Are nationalism and/or patriotism tolerable? Are they legitimate? Might they even be indispensable to the smooth functioning of a democratic polity? If so, at what level(s) and under what conditions? And what...
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When people go to work, they cease to be citizens. At their desks they are transformed into employees, subordinate to the hierarchy of the workplace. The degree of their sense of voicelessness may vary from employer to employer, but it is real and growing, inflamed by populist propaganda that ridicules democracy as weak and ineffective amid global...
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In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, an important conceptual battleground for democratic theorists ought to be, it would seem, the capitalist firm. We are now painfully aware that the typical model of government in so-called investor-owned companies remains profoundly oligarchic, hierarchical, and unequal. Renewing with the literature o...
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Purpose This paper aims to use the Capability Approach in order to shed light on the capability for voice of workers in an industrial restructuring process. Design/methodology/approach The research relies on conceptual frames and distinctions borrowed from Amartya Sen, Jon Elster and Jürgen Habermas. It is based on an empirical case study: the res...
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In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis an important conceptual battleground for democratic theorists ought to be, it would seem, the capitalist firm. We are now painfully aware that the typical model of government in so-called “investor-owned” firms remains profoundly oligarchic, hierarchical, and unequal. Inequalities in decision power, s...
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Democracy is not merely a political and legal system; it depends on social and economic commitments as well. Democracy is not only realized through elections; it requires civic participation through permanent dialogue. This volume addresses this central, yet often overlooked, issue in a series of essays by renowned scholars from Europe and the Unit...
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Democracy is not merely a political and legal system; it depends on social and economic commitments as well.Democracy is not only realized through elections; it requires civic participation through permanent dialogue. This volume addresses this central, yet often overlooked, issue in a series of essays by renowned scholars from Europe and the Unite...
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The anti-globalization and labor movements were produced by historical events and cultures that did not help them converging, nor mutually reinforcing their aims and means of action. Yet, today, two circumstances are decisively changing their context of operation: in a dozen of years, at the global level, the “great doubling” of the labor factor co...
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(cont.) for both economic profitability and democratic justice, is explored after the roots of the idea of economic bicameralism in socio-economic history and existing socio-economic institutions (such as Works Councils) are reviewed. Economic bicameralism is thus an original form of governance of the firm with regards to both its philosophy and it...
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Introduction Although the industrial society has been overtaken by the so-called ‘post-industrial’ society, collective bargaining still remains the institutional reference for the construction of Social Europe in the twenty-first century. Policy labels such as ‘social dialogue’ integrated into EU official language and the Treaty, refer mainly to th...
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Although the industrial society is overcome by the so-called "post-industrial" society, collective bargaining still remains the institutional reference for the construction of Social Europe in the 21st century. Policy labels such as "social dialogue » --integrated in the EU official language and Treaty, refer mainly to this paradigm. Nevertheless i...

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