Crisis and workers' control: Speech at the Athens Biennale 2015-2017
As consequence of the crisis, workers occupy their workplaces to prevent their closure, adopting mechanisms of collective decision-making, taking the initiative and becoming protagonists.
Dario Azzellini is an assistant professor for sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
He has published several books, essays and documentaries. His latest books are 'An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy' (Zed Books 2015) and together with Marina Sitrin 'They Can’t Represent Us. Reinventing Democracy From Greece to Occupy' (Verso 2014).
He has collaborated with Oliver Ressler on various films and they are now producing 'Occupy, Resist, Produce', a documentary series on factories under workers' control in Europe.
Azzellini’s art projects focus on socio-political themes and have been exhibited in galleries, museums and biennales around the world.
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