worker cooperatives
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What is Worker Cooperative Development?
Want more on worker cooperatives, solidarity economies, and the role of organized labor? Join us at the Murphy Institute on December 4th for our upcoming Labor Breakfast Forum, Solidarity Economies: Worker Coops. This article originally appeared at Grassroots Economic Organizing. By Christopher Michael In the 1980s, the British government supported a comprehensive system of local worker…
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Why America Needs Worker Co-Ops More Than Ever
Featured photo credit: USDA Photo by Lance Cheung, via Flickr CC This article originally appeared at Triple Pundit. By Daniel Faris America is no longer a representative democracy—a fact underscored by decades of grotesque and steadily worsening economic inequality and an election process that depends more on wealthy donors than on an informed electorate. Case in point: the…
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Pope Francis & the Moral Right to “Own Our Labor & Rent Our Capital”
A Growing Hybrid-Model-Movement Ripe for Political Consolidation By Michael Peck In America, the world of work has already changed beyond conventional wisdom sense perceptions and the willpower capacity of elected politicians to understand and embrace it. This workplace relationship tsunami, “a historic shift that rivals the transition from farms to factories,” calls out the anachronistic redlining…
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Program Manager, Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (NYC Dept of Small Business Services)
See original posting at NYC.gov The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) is a vibrant, client-centered agency whose mission is to serve New York’s small businesses, jobseekers and commercial districts. SBS makes it easier for companies in New York City to start, operate, and expand by providing direct assistance to business owners,…
