"Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System"
39th Linz Conference (September 11th–14th 2003)organized by ITH and AK-OÖ (Chamber of Labour
of Upper Austria)
Schedule
Thursday, September 11, 2003
9:00 am to 10:00 pm:
Registration
of the participants at AK-Bildungsheim Jägermayrhof, Römerstr.
98a, A-4020 Linz
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm:
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the
International Advisory Board
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm: Break
3:45 pm to 6:30 pm:
General Assembly of the Member Institutes of ITH
7:00 pm:
Conference Opening
by representatives of the University of Linz (Rector Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudolf
Ardelt), the City of Linz (Vice Mayor Hans Nöstlinger), the Provincial
Governement of Upper Austria, the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria (AK-OÖ
President Hubert Wipplinger) and by our host Mr. Erwin Kaiser from AK-Bildungsheim
Jägermayrhof.
Reception by the Mayor of Linz, Franz Dobusch, in Jägermayrhof Lectures and Sessions
Friday, September 12, 2003
from 9:00 am:
Welcoming of the participants by Gabriella Hauch, President of ITH.
Marcel Van der Linden / Berthold Unfried
Introduction
Historical phases on the relation of Labour and Globalization
Beverly Silver (Baltimore)
Labor, Globalization and World Politics: Contemporary Dynamics in World-Historical
Perspectives
Discussion (Commentators: Jürgen Hofmann / Günther Benser [Berlin])
Ilse Lenz (Bochum)
Veränderungen der Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Globalisierung
der Wirtschaft
Discussion
At noon: Reception by the
Provincial Governor of Upper Austria, Josef Pühringer,
in the Youth Hostel of Linz
from 2:00 pm:
New and old forms of Labour
in the NIC (Newly Industrialized Countries)
Ricardo Aronskind (Buenos Aires)
The impact of global trends and local changes on the Latinoamerican workers
Christof Parnreiter (Vienna)
Folgen der wirtschaftlichen Umstrukturierungen im Zuge der "Globalisierung"
in Mexiko
Discussion
Zhang Minje (Hangzhou)
Labour Migration and Social Development in China
Discussion
Dinner at Jägermayrhof
8:00 pm: Public Panel Diskussion at Jägermayrhof
Politische Antworten auf die "Globalisierung". Ist weltweite Solidarität
möglich? Und wenn ja, zwischen wem und in welchen Formen? (Political
responses to the "Globalization" of the Economy. Is worldwide
solidarity possible?)
On the panel:
Willy Buschak • Karl-Heinz Roth • Uli
Schöler • Marcel Van der Linden
The discussion will be held in GERMAN without translation!
Saturday, September 13, 2003
from 9:00 am:
"New social movements", NGOs:
New forms of representation of "Labour" on a worldwide scale?
Peter Newell (Brighton)
Managing Multinationals: Lessons from the environmental movement
Discussion
Leo Gabriel (Vienna)
Die andere Globalisierung: Strategien der sozialen Bewegungen in Lateinamerika
Discussion
"Old" forms of Labour representation:
Can unions act globally?
Andy Herod (Athens/USA)
Impacts of the Transition on Unions in Eastern Europe
Discussion
Lunch in Jägermayrhof
from 1:30 pm:
Jeffrey Harrod (Amsterdam)
Can unions act globally? Examples and perspectives of Labour representatives
in the Global Economy
Discussion
Willy Buschak (Dublin)
Diskurs über "Globalisierung" in der internationalen Gewerkschaftsbewegung
in den 1930er Jahren
Discussion
Break
Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam)
Der IBFG als transnationale Arbeitervertretung?
Discussion
John French (Durham/USA)
International Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade
Built: The Fight for International Workers Rights in a Globalizing World,
1959-1999
Discussion
Final discussion (Commentator: Peter Waterman [The Hague])
6:30 pm: Dinner at Jägermayrhof
Sunday, September 14, 2003
Departure of the participants after breakfast
Simultaneous translation into English,
French and German
Time for the speakers: 20 minutes maximum.
Breaks within the sessions will be decided by the respective chairpersons.