[P2P-F] The emergence of peer production as challenge and opportunity for labour and unions

Wed Mar 15 17:39:50 CET 2017

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 <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
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:
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>
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> ETUI Policy Brief 3/2017: emergence of peer production: challenges
>
> and opportunities for labour and unions https://t.co/hNsiXoGOlb
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> Key points and Conclusions
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> Key Points:
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> — 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.
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>  — Positive responses that have been emerging include the creation of
> generative entrepreneurial coalitions, platform cooperatives and labour
> mutuals.
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> — 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.
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>
> — 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
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>
>  Conclusions
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> 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:
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> — strongly regulates against negative externalities that affect workers
> (e.g. the regulation of Uber and AirBnB);
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> — 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’;
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> — 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.
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>
> --
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> http://commonstransition.org
>
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