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#Worker Ownership

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  • faviconWe Need a United Class, Not a United Left — Workers can get rid of their bosses and run all workplaces in the interests of the population as a whole. We need to build syndicalist trade unions: self-managed, open, class unions [2023]
    In: Trade unions    
    Topics: Co-ops, Worker Ownership   
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    Country: SE   
    Source: ZNetwork    

  • faviconFreedom Under Capitalism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be — Libertarians argue that capitalism is superior to socialism because in capitalism anyone is free to do anything, including start a worker cooperative. In truth, capitalism constrains our options [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Worker Ownership, Worker Rights   
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    Source: Jacobin    

  • faviconDemocratic Workplaces Make Economies Stronger — Employee-owners who have homes, families, and friends to consider are unlikely to vote to move their businesses out of their communities in response to tariffs or other economic shocks. Nor are they going to run around the globe looking for the cheapest labor force [2025]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Worker Ownership, Worker Rights   
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    Country: CA   
    Source: Jacobin    

  • faviconThomas Piketty’s Radical Plan to Redistribute Wealth — To address inequality & improve democracy, he suggests taking a large measure of control over corporations away from their managers and shareholders and give it to employees, and create a system of egalitarian funding for political campaigns, the media and think tanks [2022]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Worker Ownership, Worker Rights   
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    Source: NYT    

  • faviconThe humanizing power of worker-owned cooperatives — Applying principles from the Mondragon cooperative in Spain, Co-Op Cincy’s network reinforces that cooperatives are not just good for people and the planet, they are good for business [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: How to be Human, Worker Ownership   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Various    

  • faviconWorker Co-ops: A Pathway to Good Jobs for Immigrant Workers – As New York City struggles to accommodate an influx of people prohibited from employment, worker coops present a way to earn a livable income and build wealth [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Co-ops, Worker Ownership   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Labor Notes    

  • faviconIn Praise of the Worker-Owned Company — In publishing, as with far too many industries, democracy is all but absent in the workplace. The people who do the day-to-day work don’t get a vote on whether their company should be sold, or to whom. We tend to think of this as the natural order but it doesn’t need to be this way [2022]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Worker Ownership, Workplace Dictatorship   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Literary Hub    

  • faviconHow Worker Ownership Builds Community Wealth And A More Just Society – Community wealth building initiatives are taking hold in cities across the world, strengthening worker pay, local economies and democracy [2023]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Worker Ownership   
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    Source: ZNetwork