The 4th European Meeting of the Workers’ Economy will take place October 11-13 2024 in Barcelona.
Attendees from Europe and Latin America will present on economic self-management. The IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung), which is an organisational member of INDEP, will present on labour time calculation.
The event is organised by the ICEA (Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión).
More information, see above link and also:
Programme
Friday, October 11th
– 4:00 p.m. Presentation of the European Meeting of Workers’ Economy.
– 4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Context of the “workers’ economy” 17 years later.
– 6:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Break
– 6:45 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Latin American perspectives on self-management and work
(Speakers: Argentina, Chile and Mexico.)
– 8:45 p.m. – 10:20 p.m. Documentary film “Economía Col·lectiva”
Saturday, October 12th
– 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Past, present and future of struggling cooperatives: GKN (Florence), VIOME (Thessaloniki) and Kazova (Istanbul).
– 12:00 – 12:30 Break
– 12:30 – 14:15 Cooperative movement in Catalonia: XES, CGT Catalunya, Miquel Garau (historian)
– 14:30 – 16:30 Lunch.
– 16:30 – 18:30 Other businesses: caixa d’eines i feines (Raval, Barcelona), El Poblet Cooperative (formerly CIC, Catalonia), IDA (Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting, Berlin)
– 18:30 – 18:45 Break
– 18:45 – 20:30 Self-management and ecology, self-management and agriculture, energy transition. GKN, Fuorimercato, Palestinian Agricultural Cooperative (video conference).
– 20:30 – 23:00 Small snack (“tapas”) and mutual exchange.
Sunday, October 13
– 10:00 – 12:00 Self-management and development of the cooperative after the conflict (customers, suppliers… production model… gender relations… ecological perspective…) Speakers: Descontrol Cooperative, Flavio (Brazil), Andrés (Argentina).