dear Pat, if you have any of these email contacts, thanks for forwarding privately!
Michel On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Pat Conaty < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Michel > > Congratulations Michel. I really look forward to reading this report. I > think it would be good idea to send this to Bruno Roelants at CECOP and > Simel Esim at the ILO. > Simel is leading ILO’s new project on Future Work and she has very good > labour union links. Also Margie has an ILO colleague, Roberto Meglio, who > has played a lead role > in their work on Social Solidarity Economy. > > I will let others know about this report and in partnership with ETUI. > > Best wishes > > Pat > > On 15 Mar 2017, at 16:39, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is a much better link for that report: > > http://www.etui.org/Publications2/Policy-Briefs/ > European-Economic-Employment-and-Social-Policy/The- > emergence-of-peer-production-challenges-and-opportunities- > for-labour-and-unions > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> >> Vasilis Niaros of the P2P Lab and myself (Michel Bauwens) produced a >> report on commons-oriented peer production and the collaborative economy, >> and what it could mean for labour and unions, commissioned by the European >> Trade Union federation as the EU level, i.e. ETUC/ETUI >> >> Thanks a lot for eventually tweeting and diffusing it as well: >> >> >> ETUI Policy Brief 3/2017: emergence of peer production: challenges >> and opportunities for labour and unions https://t.co/hNsiXoGOlb >> >> >> Key points and Conclusions >> >> >> Key Points: >> >> — The emergence of peer production is not a transient phenomenon but an >> essential part of the evolving economy since it is based on both >> technological capacity and social demand. — As this emergence is >> accompanied by many negative social and environmental externalities, it is >> vital that the labour movement and trade unions demand strong regulatory >> safeguards. >> — There are also important potential advantages, such as a greater >> opportunity to choose meaningful and autonomous work, as well as other >> ecological benefits. >> >> — Positive responses that have been emerging include the creation of >> generative entrepreneurial coalitions, platform cooperatives and labour >> mutuals. >> >> — This policy brief recommends approaches that support a new cohort of >> autonomous workers and consider them as an integral part of the existing >> labour and union movements. >> >> — A productive model that combines global open design communities with >> distributed manufacturing should be explored as a potential framework for >> local re-industrialisation and the creation of a substantial amount of >> blue-collar jobs >> >> >> Conclusions >> >> In conclusion, both CBPP and platform capitalism have positive and >> negative aspects. Given the interconnectedness of their emergence with >> current technological capacities, we propose that the labour movement and >> trade unions craft a policy response that: >> >> — strongly regulates against negative externalities that affect workers >> (e.g. the regulation of Uber and AirBnB); >> >> — strongly promotes the positive aspects by making a link between the new >> models and those corporate entities that take into account social justice >> and distribution; in other words, supports generative businesses that >> create livelihoods around peer production and member-owned or >> multi-stakeholder-managed ‘platform cooperatives’; >> >> — supports autonomous work, creates solidarity mechanisms that insert >> these workers into systems of social protection, and attempts to bridge the >> divide between the precariat and the salariat, without reducing autonomous >> work to a subordinate status; >> >> — supports the convergence of cooperative models with those of the social >> and solidarity economy around the commons and the ‘sharing’ economy; and >> >> — supports the creation of business incubators and the prototyping of >> policies that re-create local jobs with a view to promoting potential >> re-industrialisation through distributed manufacturing models. >> >> >> -- >> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: >> http://commonstransition.org >> >> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >> >> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: >> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >> >> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >> > > > > -- > Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: > http://commonstransition.org > > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: > http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > > > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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