CWOP
The Community and Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) supports efforts percolating around the nation and New York City focused on worker-owned cooperatives, economic democracy, and community planning. In this age of burgeoning inequality and pervasive challenges to political and workplace democracy, this project supports projects in worker participation and control, as well as grassroots leadership in community development in collaboration with a broad array of organizational stakeholders, including unions, worker centers, community-based organizations, businesses and worker cooperatives.
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On Equity in Our Workforce
By Rebecca Lurie As I read the latest paper by Steve Dawson on workforce, once again I am grateful for the principles and practices he describes so well. (And succinctly! So if you have time to read a one-pager, do it! And don’t bother to read my post!) Dawson’s paper, “Class Dismissed Defining Equity in…
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Spring 2019 Special Topics Course: Economic Democracy & System Change (M 6:15-8:45pm)
Evan Casper-Futterman and Michael Menser URB 651- Special Topics: Economic Democracy and System Change Class LABR 669 – Special Topics: Economic Democracy and System Change Class And cross listed at the Grad Center, Earth and Environmental Science Dept. Discussions around economic democracy and economic “alternatives” often focus on either firm-level changes like cooperative ownership structures, or focus…
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Call for Participation: Our Economy! Economic Democracy and System Change (4/12)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 15TH, 2018 Can the economy be democratized? How can we transform it into a more socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable system? How can we combat the growing concentrations of power and wealth? What current practices point toward a participatory democratic and resilient next system? Our Economy! Economic Democracy and System Change is…
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Elements of the Democratic Economy
For the sake of our communities and our environment, our economy will need to transform. But how? The language of “economic democracy” points us in a direction, but in order to make concrete advances and replicate successes, we need to be clear about just what a democratic economy consists of. A new resource from The…
