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Work

Workshop Three in the 3-day Series "A Systems of Knowledge Approach to Sustainable Development"

In contrast to mainstream economists, we see the human problems of the modern organization of work (capitalist or communist) as the consequence not of top-down control in the service of efficiency, but of control serving the interests of the bosses. The ideological dominance of episteme has played a crucial role in the success of the project of both capitalists and commissars to take control of the production process. An example is scientific management, which not only allowed bosses to appropriate the workers' knowledge of production, but also to recast this knowledge from a techne that was the basis of workers' control to an episteme that became the basis for the boss's control. This workshop will investigate the possibilities for reasserting workers' control over work, and the role of systems of knowledge in this process.

Speakers:

• Lourdes Beneria*, Professor of Economics, Department of City and Regional Planning, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University, 106 West Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853.

• Stephen A. Marglin, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Littauer Center, Room 231, Cambridge, MA 02138; (617) 495-3759; fax: (617) 495-7730.

• Marja-Liisa Swantz, WIDER, Institute of Development Studies, Annank 42.C, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.

*Invited but not confirmed, or has not obtained needed travel funds.

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