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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

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September 8, 2022

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 1

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The first problem that a theory of the cooperative phenomenon must address is the lack of a scientific concept of the cooperative enterprise.

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September 5, 2022

Our Business Schools Have a Blindspot

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Though co-operatives exist throughout Australian society, making a hugely valuable economic contribution, their distinctive nature and management requirements are largely ignored by university business schools.

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July 28, 2022

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy

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Translator's introduction and preface to Louis Razeto Migliaro's book, Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy.

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July 18, 2022

Beyond Platform Cooperativism

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Platform cooperativism is the union of technological potential with the strength of the cooperative organization. Worker-owned platforms can be laboratories, building local experiences to challenge the dominant dynamics of gig work. They can reinvent local economic circuits of production and consumption through platforms and improve working conditions while promoting mobility policies and improvements in public transportation, care services, and integration into the health system. This is both a promise and a potential of platform cooperativism.

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May 29, 2022

The Definitive Role of Culture in Social Change

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Culture is the primary driving force in human affairs—not ideology, not technology, and not “them.” I, like so many of us, want the world to change in ways that can enable it to work better in support of life, joy, love, and creativity. In spite of this, we have taken ourselves to the darkest edge, doing enormous damage to every form of life across our Earth, including ourselves. In both cases, it’s the work of the cultures we produce. At no point in our history has it been as necessary as now to learn how to use our cultures so that they serve, more and more, the welfare of life, and damage it less and less. I believe this makes understanding how culture works muy importante.

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April 4, 2022

Building Better Knowledge Commons

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This interview digs into the oligopoly control of academic publishing, the high prices of academic journals and books, the lack of choices among many scientists and scholars, the limited leadership of university administrations, and some open-access innovations now being developed.

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March 10, 2022

Racial Justice and Co-operatives

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Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard speaks on Racial Justice and Co-operatives.

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January 27, 2022

Labor Law, Co-ops, and Innovation

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Attorney Neil Helfman discusses his chapter in the Sustainable Economies Law Center's 2021 Legal Guide to Worker Cooperatives, as well as his thoughts on worker cooperatives in construction and climate-wise, green building, and the need for professionals to step up in the coop movement.

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August 5, 2021

Why Italy Might See a Worker Co-operative Boom

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With Covid’s impacts still being felt and a decade of business sales about to erupt it is key that we learn how to make WBOs as easy as possible for prospective worker-owners.

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July 26, 2021

On Worker Cooperatives

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Niki Okuk, COO of RCO Tires cooperative, discusses the tribulations and the successes of doing business as a worker co-op.