Organising Young Precarious Workers

1. Organising Young Precarious Workers

2. Overview Working Groups • Collective action among young precarious workers: • problems + obstacles • positive examples • 2 groups: • organising campaign • conflict capacities

3. Background Precarious Work in large scale retailing in Milan: • generalised experiences of precarisation  vulnerability to blackmailing • high subjective relevance of collective support // but: limited collective resources + capacities

4. Collective Action among Precarious Workers Limited collective resources + capacities: • limited access • passive participation • individualisation of conflict experiences • marginalisation of «collective activists » • personalisation of shopfloor relations  First part of group work: your experiences!

5. Enhancing Collective Capacities • Overcoming fragmentation • Enhancing collective experiences / shopfloor organising • Developing new conflict strategies • Second part of group work: imagining organising campaign + conflict capacities

6. Group Work Tasks • Free discussion of the topics  sub-questions only as guidance • Documentation of most important discussion results  presentation in plenary session + joint discussion per question