Work in Transition - Transition in Work: Understanding the Dynamics of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Cuba

International conference from 14th to 15th November at the TU Dresden, Institute of Sociology 

This conference will focus on Cuba as a laboratory of social change and the social, cultural and gender-specific processes associated with the current crisis. The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) created in the course of state reforms play a decisive role in Cuba's social and economic transformation. They touch on essential aspects of the way of life, the relationship with the Cuban state and the revolution, and also on fundamental questions of alternative social concepts, including climate change, combating hunger, access to education and health systems and gender equality. From a comparative perspective, the sociality of the labour process and the experience of work, including forms of ownership, are of particular importance. What are the possibilities and limits of collective forms of work organisation? What experiences, contradictions and challenges arise in private companies within state socialist economies? And in comparison, in co-operative enterprises in capitalist economies?

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