2014 SURF Conference Proceedings

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Conference is an annual event bringing together UC Berkeley undergraduate fellows who have spent a summer doing concentrated research in preparation for a senior thesis or another major capstone research project. Participants in this conference proceedings journal come from a wide variety of fields in the humanities and social/behavioral sciences. They conduct their research with the guidance of faculty mentors and present their findings every year at the end of August.

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Boxed In: Precarity and Affect in Coupland and Wallace

Grant, Dylan
Advisor(s): Langan, Celeste

(2015)

Age and Incarceration

El-Qoulaq, Omar T
Advisor(s): Smith, Craig

(2015)

The Open Factory Concept in Worker Recovered Businesses in Buenos Aires, Argentina

von Kaenel, Natasha
Advisor(s): Weir, Margaret

(2015)

Around the world, groups of workers have occupied their places of work, taking control and re-opening them as worker-managed cooperative businesses, or ERTs. ERTs employ various strategies to keep their occupations alive, but this thesis focuses on one specific strategy, la fábrica abierta, or the open factory. The open factory concept refers to the opening up of the workplace to the community for different cultural, political and educational events. This paper is the manuscript of a speech about the open factory concept given at the SURF conference at UC Berkeley in Summer 2014.