INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON GLOBAL “WORKING CLASSES” AND SOCIAL CHANGES, SANT’ANNA SCHOOL - PISA, JUNE, 14, 2017, AT 2.00 PM

Professor Beverly Silver, sociologist at Johns Hopkins University and the Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies will give her lecture on “The remaking of the global working class”, on June 14, at 2.00 p.m.. The seminar will focus on the organization of production that has characterized the history of capitalism since 1870. It resulted in the making of new working classes on a world-scale and we are now at the beginnings of a new worldwide upsurge of labor and class-based mobilization.

Beverly Silver, co-authored with Giovanni Arrighi, political economist and sociologist, the book “Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization” (Cambridge University Press, 2003), translated into over a dozen languages. Giovanni Arrighi, who died in 2009, will be remembered for his works analyzing four systemic cycles of accumulation in the history of global capitalism.

Beverly Silver coordinates a research working group on Global Working Class. She focused on the globalization of industry and production, the bargaining power of workers, the upsurge of labor unrest and class-based mobilization. In her book “Forces of Labor” she discussed how globalization unleashed an intense competition among workers worldwide, and resulted in a relentless downward spiral in workers' power and welfare. The seminar is coordinated by Professor Mario Pianta of Università di Urbino. Invited speakers include: Donatella della Porta of Scuola Normale Superiore and Francesco Garibaldo of “Fondazione Claudio Sabattini”. Professor Giovanni Dosi, economist at Sant’Anna School, will give the closing remarks.

Cover photo: Researchers of Sant’Anna School Institute of Economics