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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New Labor Forum: April 15th, 2019
The New Labor Forum has a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. The gaping income and wealth inequality, increasing constrictions on democratic rights, and perilous ecological unsustainability that are the features of the…
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Event: OUR ECONOMY! Economic Democracy and System Change (4/12)
Fri, April 12, 2019 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT 25 W 43rd Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10036 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…
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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…
