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This workshop will introduce participants to a range of diverse perspectives from which voice and silence in organisations can be understood whilst acting as the inaugural event for the voice and silence community (VSC). An understanding of what encourages employees to voice is a fundamental concern for the HR professional and operational manager, yet preoccupations remain over how organisations can create conditions conducive to voice. Voice and silence scholars have traditionally focused on the role of the individual and the manager as main influences over voice and silence, yet contextual factors, as well as different types of voice have been shown to be highly influential. In the morning, the workshop will explore a number of contextual influences such as economic austerity, the presence of trade unions, the formality of voice mechanisms, and managerial processes. In the afternoon we will focus on one particular and topical form of voice, whistleblowing. To finalise the day, a workshop activity will discuss next steps for the voice and silence community, including subsequent events and collaborative opportunities.
Wednesday 6th March 9.30am - 4.30pm
This workshop will be of interest to scholars in the field of voice and silence as well as practitioners interested in how to harness the power of employees’ voices
Benefits of Attendance
• Increased awareness of diverse influences over voice and silence
• Networking opportunity
• Discussion around collaborations and subsequent events
Sheffield University Management School
Middleton Lecture Theatre
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
BAM Organisational Psychology SIG
Professor Jimmy Donaghey
Professor John Blenkinsopp
Professor Kate Kenny
Dr Rea Prouska
Dr Stewart Johnstone
Dr Sarah Brooks
For more information about this event, please contact Sarah Brooks: s.brooks@sheffield.ac.uk
For general enquires, please contact Linh Dang at the BAM Office at eventsofficer@bam.ac.uk, or on 02073837770
Students £15
BAM members £20
Non-BAM members £35
Registration Deadline: 5th March 2019
BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group
Popular Unity: The Lessons of Chile - 50 Years On
Salvador Allende, Chile’s first Socialist President, was elected 50 years ago, in September 1970. Supported by Popular Unity governments, he embarked on a radical programme to socialise his country’s economy and redistribute its wealth, while fully respecting its democratic institutions and rule of law. However, powerful opponents both inside and outside Chile soon began to destabilise the country, and his government was overthrown in a brutal coup in September 1973, which led to the murder, torture, disappearance and exile of tens of thousands of Chileans.
To mark the momentous anniversary of Allende’s election, and to celebrate the enduring hope of democratic socialism, we are delighted to announce our next Seminar which we shall conduct through Zoom/ MS Teams:
17.00-18.45 Tuesday 22 September, on line
For further details and/or to reserve a place, please e-mail Michael Gold (m.gold@rhul.ac.uk) or Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk). We will then send you the link shortly before the seminar.
Programme:
17.00-17.15: Welcome and introduction: Michael Gold and Linda Clarke (Chairs)
17.15 – 17.45: Francisco Dominguez
Allende's Chile: State and Revolution
Since the coup against Allende in 1973, Latin American has experienced decades of turmoil, neoliberal transformation, regional integration efforts, and massive economic and political aggression from the United States. Popular Unity's defeat notwithstanding, the Chilean experience under Allende continues to be inspirational with key Latin American political and social agents for change who draw both negative and positive lessons for revolutionary transformation processes elsewhere in the region. The argument is no longer focused on peaceful or armed revolution, but on the constitutional transformation of state bodies as enabling legitimate acts conducive to the desired revolutionary change in the economy, society and polity. This talk will examine these issues.
17.45 – 18.15: Fernando Duran-Palma and Miguel Urrutia
Opening up the great avenues: workers, unions, and the struggle against neoliberalism in Chile (1979-2019)
After four decades of neoliberalism, and echoing the prophetic words of Salvador Allende in his last address to the nation,1 millions of Chileans took to the streets in October 2019 to demand the construction of a better, more equal, and dignified society. We argue that Chile’s current social upheaval is, in no small measure, a mass uprising of the world of work which, in turn, can be traced back to the protracted development of what we call ‘insurgent unionism,’ or the variety of emerging forms of collective action and organisation that remarkable groups of ‘precarious’ workers have built from below, and with which they have routinely challenged the neoliberal order, ever since the dark days of the Pinochet dictatorship. In this presentation, we will examine the origins, main features, as well as the promises and limitations of this alternative form of unionism.
1 “Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free men will walk to build a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!” (Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973)
18.15 – 18.55: Discussion
18.45: Close
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Our speakers:
Dr Francisco Dominguez is head of the Research Group on Latin America at Middlesex University. He is Secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. Francisco came to Britain in 1979 as a Chilean political refuge and has been active on Latin American issues, about which he has written and published extensively. He is co-author of Right -wing politics in the New Latin America, Zed Books.
Dr Fernando Duran-Palma is Senior Lecturer at the School of Organisations, Economy and Society, University of Westminster. He has published on Chilean industrial relations, trade unionism, and labour reform. He was Principal Investigator of the project ‘Varieties of Collective Action and Organisation by Atypical and Precarious Workers in Latin America’ funded by the University of Westminster’s Strategic Research Investment Fund, and upon which this presentation is partly based. He coordinates the Argentina-Chile research Network on Collective Action and Organisation by Precarious Workers, and is currently involved in a comparative study of forms of collective action in the recycling networks of Chile and Argentina.
Dr Miguel Urrutia is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Chile. He has published more than 20 scientific papers and book chapters on Chilean trade unionism and politics, and recently directed the translation of Workers and Labor in Globalized Capitalism (Maurizio Atzeni, ed.). In 2019, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University, and is currently Principal Investigator of the project ‘Trade Union Action in Chile and its Insertion in Global Production Networks.’
Michael Gold/ Linda Clarke
24th August 2020