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

Thu Mar 16 22:20:28 CET 2017

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 <
pat.commonfutures at phonecoop.coop> 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 <michel at p2pfoundation.net> 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 <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:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
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>>
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>
>
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> http://commonstransition.org
>
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