Webinar: Enabling Workers to Govern Their Work - 2024

While some proposals for democratizing work focus on representative forms of democracy, e.g. board members elected by employees, others focus on the direct involvement of workers on the ground. Skeptics often hold, however, that this is only feasible - if at all - for highly skilled employees. But is this really so, or is it a prejudice based on misguided ideas about meritocracy? What does it take to enable workers to truly participate in the governance of their own work? What frictions must be expected, and how can they be overcome? And what role can unions and other actors (activists, researchers, etc.) play in enabling the government of work by workers themselves?