cooperatives
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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…
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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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Comparative Studies in Cooperative Economies – EU and USA
By Rebecca Lurie María Pilar Alguacil Marí, Professor of Financial and Tax Law at the University of Valencia, recently spent time at the Murphy Institute for Labor and Urban Studies/CUNY, where she has carried out various academic activities and taught two seminars. The first seminar, “Academic Study of Cooperative Economics,” was held on April 2nd…
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Union Cooperatives: What They Are and Why We Need Them
By Simon Taylor Trade unionist Jimmy Reid described alienation as ‘the frustration of ordinary people excluded from the process of decision-making.’ This frustration is endemic in contemporary neoliberalised economies, and according to commentators, including George Monbiot, it contributes to the rise of populist backlashes and disempowerment. Unions play a vital role in counter-balancing alienation and frustration,…
