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The Scarcity of Worker Cooperatives in the USA: Enquiring into Possible Causes
By Rebecca Lurie Last year, the Community and Worker Ownership Project and John Mollenkopf at the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center were pleased to host Professor Sofia Arana Landin for research on cooperative economics in New York City. Her work was extensive in building foundational thought for a comparative study of…
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Dispatch from the Labor Notes Conference
By Rebecca Lurie This month was the bi-annual Labor Notes Conference of the “International Troublemakers and Boat-Rockers Union.” Those who have never been before can imagine it as the place where grassroots union and worker organizers meet union leadership on their terms, led by those previously left out of leadership in our unions. Youth, women…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: April 17th, 2018
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. This newsletter appears one week in advance of the fifth anniversary of Rana Plaza garment factory collapse, the worst disaster in…
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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…
