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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Sofia Arana Shares Economic Democracy Lessons From Basque Country
By Rebecca Lurie Last week, CWOP hosted a conversation with Sofia Arana from the Basque Country. She shared a qualitative comparison of US tax codes and those of the Basque region in Spain as ways and reasons we have such difficult uptake of just and equitable economic development in the US. Her chapter in the…
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Event: Putting Democracy to Work: How Women Lead Worker Cooperatives (7/24)
Wednesday, July 24, 2019: 6:30-8:00 PM CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd Street, Room 18A-B New York, NY 10036 Featuring: Adria Powell, CEO and President, Cooperative Home Care Associates Maru Bautista, Director of the Cooperative Development Project, Center of Family Life Rebecca Lurie, CUNY SLU Professor, Moderator Join us for a…
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Economic Democracy on Laura Flanders Show
Last month, SLU hosted Our Economy!, a conference where leaders in community, labor and the economic democracy movement gathered to vision for an economy that can work for everyone. The most recent episode of the Laura Flanders Show covers some of the conversations that took place at the conference, and which have been happening in SLU’s…
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Updates from the Community and Worker Ownership Project
April was a very exciting month for the Community and Worker Ownership Project at SLU. We hosted the new school’s first faculty conference; “Our Economy! Economic Democracy and System Change,” giving us the opportunity to gather several hundred people to have shared conversations about what would it take to take to scale practice for economic…
