<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px">"I'm eager to see Tom's reaction, on how his theoretical analysis and wishes, are confronted with the reality of labor commons actually emerging,"</span><br><div><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">First, I would argue that the early labour movements had more of the character of what I call "labour commons unionism" than do the current-day state-certified organizations. One needs only to read the manifestoes of the ten-hour day movement in the U.K. or the eight-hour day movement in the U.S. to see the prominence of solidarity with the unemployed. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">For evidence of actually emerging labour commons today, one has to look outside of organized labour -- which, I would maintain is one of the big reasons organized labour has been in decline. Consider what happened with the wild fires in Fort McMurray. There was a great deal of spontaneous self-organization in receiving communities to feed and shelter the evacuees. Rebecca Solnit wrote about the generality of this kind of response to disaster in <i>A Paradise Made in Hell</i>, which she discussed with Jonathan Rowe in this radio interview back in 2009: <a href="http://jonathanrowe.org/interview-rebecca-solnit-a-paradise-built-hell">http://jonathanrowe.org/interview-rebecca-solnit-a-paradise-built-hell</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">How these two sides relate is that early labour movements were collective responses to "disasters" -- widespread unemployment, wage cuts, dangerous working conditions, etc. Whether and how large numbers of people will mobilize to respond collectively to climate change, precariousness, plutocratic austerity can only be a matter of speculation at this point. One cannot prescribe how such a mobilization will evolve. What I am trying to anticipate is what kinds of tools will educate people in ways that will enable them to respond most effectively to the challenges of transition from an unsustainable fossil-fuel based industrial society. </span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm eager to see Tom's reaction, on how his theoretical analysis and wishes, are confronted with the reality of labor commons actually emerging,<div><br></div><div>but I don't share Tibi's analysis that this is un-problematic, in fact, what Tibi and Sensororica are doing, how well would be the question, is to create membranes that 'discipline' extractive capital to the needs of the commoners; if that is NOT done well, it can also be an extractive mechanism that allows corporations to profit from the largely free labour donated to these platforms</div><div><br></div><div>that is as much a struggle as the struggle between labor and capital in commodity labor,</div><div><br></div><div>Michel</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Tiberius Brastaviceanu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com" target="_blank">tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Tom for sharing this article. I am going to read it with great interest. I copied Alexandre from Ouishare MTL, who has a passion for the future of labor. <div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Here's my first gut reaction to this. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The underlying assumption is the struggle between labor and capital. But if our economic system is reconfiguring this relationship is no longer the same. </div><div class="gmail_extra">Peer production networks like <a href="http://www.sensorica.co" target="_blank">www.sensorica.co</a> can be seen as new ways of organizing labor, co-managing resources, redistribution of benefits, ... All the means of production belong to individuals, are co-owned or are under nondominium or commons property regimes, and they are shared according to some rules. I don't like to think of the network as an accumulation of labor, labor potential that serves capital, unless you are thinking about centralized crowdsourcing platforms that play the role of intermediary between the crowd and corporations. In the case of SENSORICA I see it as an aggregation of labor, skills, resources, for projects that are driven by the crowd, for the crowd. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you bet on platform capitalism and you think that these centralized crowdsourcing platforms will rule the world, the uberization of work, then labor, as subjected to corporations for production, distribution and rewards, then you might want to think of protective measures for labor, you may want to make it possible for labor to achieve a new equilibrium of forces. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you bet on peer production a la SENSORICA all this opposition disappears. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There is a Facebook thread where I mention our observations of capital being more and more subjected to peer production rules, from our experience with servicing corporations. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Some links </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABmC6YJsszlIPoL-YXU3GF-PLHY0tmQdocBExswh7Lw/edit" target="_blank">Interfaces between open p2p networks and classical institutions</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F19rvACy80_0k3p32dI2NReuVkmozRvDJceaQCuf8y0/edit" target="_blank">On redistribution of resources</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">thanks Tom,<div><br></div><div>Michel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Tom Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lumpoflabor@gmail.com" target="_blank">lumpoflabor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yes, Michel. Briefly, a few years ago I wrote a piece called "Time on the Ledger" that sketches the rudiments of a social accounting framework that could be used by a labour commons unionism. It's posted on Scribd: <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/44657733/Time-on-the-Ledger-Social-Accounting-for-the-Good-Society" target="_blank">https://www.scribd.com/doc/44657733/Time-on-the-Ledger-Social-Accounting-for-the-Good-Society</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Could you be very specific about this Tom, <div><br></div><div>I work with post-corporate entrepreneurial coalitions and labour mutuals , and it would be of interest to me if you could explain the practicalities of how this would work ?</div><div><br></div><div>have you looked into contributive accounting systems like Sensorica's</div><div><br></div><div>how does that relate to your ideas,</div><div><br></div><div>for example: <a href="http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Interfacing_Open_Peer_Production_Organizations_with_Classical_Institutions" target="_blank">http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Interfacing_Open_Peer_Production_Organizations_with_Classical_Institutions</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Check<span style="font-size:12.8px">From: Tom Walker <</span><a href="mailto:lumpoflabor@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">lumpoflabor@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [Debate-List] (Fwd)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Radical leisure, less work, more commoning (Eva Swidler)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">To: P2P Foundation mailing list <</span><a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Message-ID:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <</span><a href="mailto:CANz%2BBQxMmvc9SEh1Rf52GHqiJirV_6RCOUzYA_KYJGM%2BRpD8rQ@mail.gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">CANz+BQxMmvc9SEh1Rf52GHqiJirV_6RCOUzYA_KYJGM+RpD8rQ@mail.gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I hope this article sparks the conversation that needs to take place. It</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">certainly raises the issues that need to be addressed.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In my view, the next step in thinking about labour, leisure and the commons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">is to conceptualize labour power as a common pool resource. Unions have</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">traditionally bargained for collective terms for individualized work</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">contracts, which reinforces the selling time for money paradigm. "A fair</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">day's work for a fair day's wage." Treating labour power as a common pool</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">resource, however, would require the development of an entirely different,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">social accounting framework in which collective interests of security and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">community -- commonalty, to use the Luddites' term -- are prioritized. I've</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">written a few things on labour power as a common pool resource and Paul</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Burkett discussed the concept in Marx and Nature.</span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div>
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