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Democratizing Work After the Pandemic: Speaker Series
Monday, June 28, 2021 – Thursday, July 15, 2021
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
EDT/GMT-4
Online Event
This summer, OSUN's
Economic Democracy Initiative
(EDI) is offering “Democratizing Work after the Pandemic,” an OSUN Course and public speaker series that brings to the OSUN community prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines to interrogate the importance of democratizing work as an economic, geopolitical and civic project in a world that is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The pandemic exposed fundamental and deeply rooted inequities in the labor market and society at large” says
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
, OSUN-EDI Founding Director and Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College. “Workers who kept the world’s economies going and sustained our lives and livelihoods were hailed as ‘essential’ and ‘indispensable’ but lacked the very basic protections, decent wages, and minimum necessary benefits required to sustain their own lives and livelihoods” she added.
This course and public series of talks rethinks and reimagines work as a democratic project in the post-pandemic world. Working people are not simply "resources"--that was a central lesson of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. "Democratizing Work" examines why economic well-being and economic security cannot be governed by market forces alone. It evaluates how and why existing economic structures exacerbate rampant inequalities, erode the very foundations of economic stability, and threaten the lives of the most vulnerable.
Confirmed speakers include:
June 22, 9:30 AM New York l 3:30 PM Vienna
Isabelle Ferreras,
Professor, University of Louvain; tenured fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation (F.N.R.S., Brussels) Senior Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.
"Democratizing work. What, how, and why?"
June 24, 10:30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna
Mario Seccareccia,
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa; 2021 Galbraith Prize in Economics.
"Reclaiming full employment policy"
June 28, 10: 30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna:
Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song
, Senior Employment Intensive Specialist, International Labor Organization (ILO). Former Chief Director, EPWP Unit, Department of Public Works, South Africa.
"Employment is too important to leave to markets alone. The Case of South Africa"
June 29, 10: 30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna:
Daniel Kostzer
, Former Director, Research and Macroeconomic Coordination, Ministry of Labor, Argentina; Advisor, National Lower Chamber, Argentina. Consultant to the ILO, World Bank, and UNDP.
"Reflecting on the minimum wage 120 years later and its role in democratizing work"
July 1, 10: 30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna:
Lisa Herzog
, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Groningen. Author of Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2013).
"Workplace democracy and epistemic justice"
July 12, 10: 30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna:
Sonalde Desai
, joint appointment at National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, as Professor and Director of National Data Innovation Centre, a collaborative enterprise between NCAER, University of Maryland, and the University of Michigan, with support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"India's rural employment guarantee: household welfare and rural transformation"
July 13, 10: 30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna:
Noel Healy
, Associate Professor, Geography and Sustainability, Salem State University, IPCC contributing author, observer to the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Bonn and at the UNFCCC COP21 Paris talks.
"A just transition for whom? The contested politics of global decarbonization"
July 15, 10: 30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna:
Yeva Nersisyan
, Research Associate at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Associate Professor of Economics, Franklin and Marshall College.
"Paying for the green new deal"
Please register for the public sessions via this Zoom link.