The Italian workers’ model of struggle for health and safety in the 1970s and 1980s, its influence across Europe and its meaning for OSH trade union strategy today

Data Evento: 
February 09, 2016 to February 10, 2016

9 February - 10 February 2016, Hotel Thon Brussels City Centre, Avenue du Boulevard 17 Bruxelles, BRU 1210 Belgium
The Italian workers’ model of struggle for health and safety in the 1970s and 1980s, its influence across Europe and its meaning for OSH trade union strategy today

ETUI Seminar

In the 1970s and 1980s, workers’ participation in health and safety initiatives resulted in a deep renewal of trade union mobilisation strategies. From the end of the 1960s, new experiences were developed in Italy. These were focussed on workers’ capacity to analyse work processes, identify hazards and define preventive solutions. Very quickly this new wave of mobilisation crossed the frontiers of Italy and spread throughout Europe and to different parts of the world.

Our intention at this gathering is to present ongoing research about these experiences and to discuss how the period in question could be an inspiration for health and safety strategy today.

The seminar will be based on the cooperation of scholars, people who were active in the struggles in question and trade unionists responsible for organising health and safety action today.

This event is linked with several initiatives in different countries for collecting documentation and analysing the history of the period in question. Among these initiatives, the creation of a digital archive of thousands of documents has been carried out in Italy with the support of INAIL (the national institute for the compensation of work injuries).
Diego Alhaique (Fondazione Giuseppe Di Vittorio) presenterà la relazione dal titolo: ‘The FIM-FIOM -UILM guide’ and the methodology of workers’ investigation for a participatory approach to prevention’.

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Interpretation into French, English and Italian will be available.

 

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