Study seminar WORK, PARTICIPATION, DEMOCRACY PEOPLE, RIGHTS, CIVIL ECONOMY

It is since the last few years that the work – in Europe, in the heart of the West – became
the a main debate and quite increasingly worried and alarmed. The European debate on “decent work” has looked up until the last decade, outside its borders, towards the East and to the
many “souths” of the world. Today, the phenomena that is no longer considered hoped recessive or contingents, have reported that discussion in the heart of the old continent, not only for the eastern enlargement of the Union and not just restricting it in some (few) countries.
The main issue is that the work guarantees always less access to the citizenship and instrument of emancipation, learning, freedom and democracy. The close solidarity between work and social participation – especially if seen through the eyes of young people and women – seems to have broken, seriously threatening the stability and social welfare, the base of every development program.
Young people and women seem to be getting further from that goal of “good jobs” that the
knowledge society – according to the Lisbon strategy – should guarantee them. On the other
hand, the representation of the work, as we have known in Europe in ‘900, seems no longer be
able to give adequate answers...

London • 7-9/10/2011 • Ibis London Earls Court Hotel • 47, Lillie Road Earl’s Court

SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER SESSION

Active employment policies and reduction of social inequalities Opening
Chairman

Maurizio Drezzadore, ACLI Italy, Head of Labour Department
Introduction
Conny Reuter, President of the Social Platform
Interventions
Bogdan Iuliu Hossu, President of the National Romanian Trade Union Confederation “Cartel ALFA”
Eva-Britt Svensson*, Member of the European Parliament, president of Committee on Women’s Rights
and Gender Equality
Fabrizio Benvignati, Vice President of Patronato ACLI
Antonino Ziglio, Vice President of ENAIP (ACLI National Vocational Training)
Alfons Collado, European Christian Workers Movement (ECWM), former President of the ACO (Acció Católica Obrera – Catholic Workers Organization)
Pasquale Orlando, General Secretary of FAP (Federation of Pensioners and Elderly people) ACLI

Break
Debate
Conclusions
Vittoria Boni, ACLI Italy, Head of Welfare Departmen