<div dir="ltr">interesting from orsan senalp:<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">As it is clear from her bio, she turned the excluded workers'</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">precarity into a capital, by monetising the vulnerability, branding a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">company as a union, and precarious people into 'independant workers'.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This represent a good example of how one can hack a 'union form' turn</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">it into a private insurance company. This is of course a reinvention</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of the western business unionism form and adopting it to the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">re-workerized middle classes. </span><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Örsan Şenalp</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:28 PM<br>
Subject: [Networkedlabour] Capturing human labour in its entirety or modularly before embedding it into automated systems vs. real global emancipation<br>To: "<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>><br>
<br><br>"Rapacious financialisation risks turning everything we are and have<br>
into a productive asset. And the foremost asset is our personal data,<br>
mined by digitalised technology." Says Evgeny Morozov in his recent<br>
What you whistle in the shower - How much for your data? [From Le<br>
Monde Diplomatique English Edition, August 2014]:<br>
<a href="http://cryptome.org/2014/08/morosov-how-much-your-data.htm" target="_blank">http://cryptome.org/2014/08/morosov-how-much-your-data.htm</a><br>
<br>
...<br>
Freelancers Union in the US has been a form of response, initiated by<br>
a new generation unionist Horowitz, who describes herself on the<br>
website of the 'union' (<a href="https://www.freelancersunion.org/" target="_blank">https://www.freelancersunion.org/</a>):<br>
<br>
"As the founder and Executive Director of Freelancers Union – and CEO<br>
of the social-purpose Freelancers Insurance Company (FIC) – Sara has<br>
been helping workers solve their problems for nearly two decades. A<br>
MacArthur Foundation "Genius" fellow, Sara has long been a leading<br>
voice for the emerging economy, early on recognising the vital role<br>
independent workers would play in our networked, interconnected world.<br>
Today, 42 million Americans are "independent workers" – about<br>
one-third of the entire workforce. With a membership of more than 244k<br>
nationwide, Freelancers Union is building a new form of unionism<br>
through creative, cooperative, market-based solutions to pressing<br>
social problems. Sara was named one of the Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs<br>
by Forbes in 2011, a Top 25 Most Promising Social Entrepreneur by<br>
Businessweek in 2011, one of Crain's New York's "25 People to Watch"<br>
in 2010, and one of 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow at the 2002 World<br>
Economic Forum."<br>
<br>
As it is clear from her bio, she turned the excluded workers'<br>
precarity into a capital, by monetising the vulnerability, branding a<br>
company as a union, and precarious people into 'independant workers'.<br>
This represent a good example of how one can hack a 'union form' turn<br>
it into a private insurance company. This is of course a reinvention<br>
of the western business unionism form and adopting it to the<br>
re-workerized middle classes. This example says a lot in relation to<br>
the counter argument posed against the aggressive total data capture<br>
by monopolies like Google, and Facebook [and other NSA-PRISM<br>
collaborators] -mentioned by Morozov in his article- where it is<br>
proposed to 'monetization of the personal data' by giving the<br>
copyrights of personal data to individuals themselves, of course<br>
together with the 'right to sell it to the market'. What we see in<br>
this picture is clashing core arguments of the future capitalism. On<br>
the one side a 'perfect capitalism' propagated by NSA partners like<br>
Google, Facebook, Californian Singularity ideology,... but on the<br>
other hand we see emerging new constellations new start up aligning<br>
around Industrial Internet and Smart Cities concepts, by corporations<br>
like Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Apple, the first generation knowledge<br>
capital fractions. I think Vasilis Kostakis' and Michel's co-authored<br>
book Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy<br>
provides very insightful perspective to understand structural and<br>
agency dynamics:<br>
<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Network_Society_and_Future_Scenarios_for_a_Collaborative_Economy" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/Network_Society_and_Future_Scenarios_for_a_Collaborative_Economy</a><br>
<br>
On the other hand, in response to Horowitz's kind of business unionism<br>
2.0, we see emerging European, or German model being developed by Joel<br>
Dellroy here: <a href="http://freelancersmovement.org/" target="_blank">http://freelancersmovement.org/</a> and here with a<br>
European level crouwdfunded campaign: <a href="http://freelancers-europe.org/" target="_blank">http://freelancers-europe.org/</a><br>
<br>
Thinking in relation or comparing these two to the example in other<br>
thread, opened up by Peter's posting of Gaza action in Oakland, where<br>
we see new occupy type unionism which is about organising<br>
unorganisable: those who are the 'labour's others' as Peter called<br>
them, who can not afford to be 'independant worker' at all and going<br>
through much deeper existential crisis while thinking this is their<br>
individual inabilities. Forming horizontal self-organised communities<br>
through self-expression and representation, exchange and articulation,<br>
mobilisation and collective action is shared in the last and European<br>
freelancers movement idea. Although the latter new unionism (gunion,<br>
99picket lines, or occupy-15m related networked/direct unionism) are<br>
radically different from both examples of freelancer unions mentioned<br>
above in politics, my argument that they can and have to collaborate<br>
in a modular way in order to harmonise or interconnect struggles at<br>
various global-working-class-fractions (see Strauna:<br>
<a href="http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/4/2/0/9/pages242093/p242093-1.php" target="_blank">http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/4/2/0/9/pages242093/p242093-1.php</a>).<br>
<br>
This is again how I see this modular collective work can be delivered<br>
in practise, overcoming cultural, political, ideological dividing<br>
lines, by p2p collaborating based on mutual recognition and more<br>
importantly based exchanges of concrete needs, configured according to<br>
that specific collaboration:<br>
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/orsans/gnunion-version-beta-10" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/orsans/gnunion-version-beta-10</a><br>
<br>
I think capital in all its forms are in favour of total socialisation<br>
of labour, by capturing value in any possible way and accumulating.<br>
There is of course inter-class fight about how and who to do that,<br>
which seems like delaying our faith. What rises as the only option for<br>
human kind to stop this maniacal going is 'to unite'. And we all know<br>
this that it can only work if it is allows spontanity, simultanuity,<br>
include egalitarian and respectful manners, and democratic and mature<br>
processes. This is the ideal form in my mind, trying to grow into,<br>
which can give a practical picture of what I am trying to say:<br>
<br>
a map of relationships:<br>
<a href="http://graphcommons.com/system/images/2106/original/graph.png?1406131146" target="_blank">http://graphcommons.com/system/images/2106/original/graph.png?1406131146</a><br>
actors and items for collaboration:<br>
<br>
On platform building and networking for working people and tech-labour<br>
unionists, labour organisers, and community projects with Says-us [as<br>
an online plartform that put workless workers, activists, alternative<br>
solidarity economy communities in touch.], with Freelancers Movement<br>
in Europe - and may be US? to develope a platform for self-empowerment<br>
of freelancers<br>
<br>
On organising, with Organizing Campaigns and independant unions<br>
[janitors, helath care, education, logistics...]>> to integrate<br>
self-empowerment tools for safe self-organising alongside the global<br>
production networks and value chains (via mapping by workers manuel or<br>
online with software like Debate Gpraph, GraphCommons, Deepha Mehta,<br>
open chain mapping) with NetzwerkIT, Sensorica, TIE network, IWW<br>
<br>
On Tech developemnt with FSF (John Sullivan) + Cyberunions (Stephan,<br>
Walton), Mayfirst/People Link<br>
<br>
On research, analysis, knowledge commons, open strategy... support,<br>
with P2P foundation, Transform, TNI, Waag Society, Institute of<br>
Network Cultures, IIRE, Triple C...<br>
<br>
On cooperatives with Catalan Integral Cooperative, Calafou,...<br>
<br>
On naming and shaming: LabourLeaks, Associated WhistleBlowers Press, Wikileaks<br>
<br>
On mass labour campaigning and labour media network: USI, LabourTech,<br>
LabourSTart, CapulTV, Global Revolution, I-Witness<br>
<br>
Project / infrastructure development and concept hacking communities:<br>
HackLabs, HackBases, HackSpaces, MakerSpaces, FabLabs, Ecowillages,<br>
Squatters, Cyprto Parties, co-working spaces, co-housing spaces.<br>
<br>
Political spaces for articulation: Interface, DeGrwoth, Chaos Computer<br>
Congress / Camp, World Social Forum, AlterSummit, Joint Social<br>
Conference, Co-Workers gathering,..<br>
<br>
<br>
...work in progress..<br>
Orsan<br>
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