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Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.

Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.

Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.

Gregory Patmore is an Emeritus Professor of Business and Labour History, University of Sydney.

Amidu Mutaru is a first year PhD student at the Anthropology department of the University of Toronto. He is from northeastern Ghana, and holds an MSc in African Studies from Oxford University. His research interests lie in the theoretical crossroads between youth cultures, activism, social movements, informal economies, livelihoods, cyber frauds, and the anthropology of morality. He is currently developing his PhD thesis topic along these lines. He has worked as a research assistant on diverse projects including the "Black Social Economy in Toronto" project from which this piece emerges. On this project, Amidu worked with the "Banker Ladies" and carried out global research on the ROSCAs for Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein, his supervisor who has worked on solidarity economies, ROSCAS and informal finances for more than a decade.

Mike De Socio is a freelance journalist and photographer based in upstate New York. His reporting focuses on cities, climate change, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Georgetown University Law Center's Workers’ Rights Institute: Legal and policy initiatives that raise standards for working people, while supporting strategies that build workers’ collective power in the workplace and in their communities.

We are a grassroots network of cooperatives and serve-the-people programs designed to address social issues in our communities. 100% founded and run by youth in Worcester, MA.

Dare to Co-op, Dare to Win.

Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To achieve a more just society, many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed through greater economic and social democracy so that ordinary Americans can participate in the many decisions that affect our lives.

We are dedicated first of all to democracy, and to bringing democracy into the economic sphere. We are not a political party that runs candidates. Rather, we are a political organization that engages in many activities as needed: electoral politics, issue politics, organizing, protest, and education.

Rafael Grohmann is an assistant professor in communication at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos University), Brazil, and incoming assistant professor of media studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is coordinator of DigiLabour Research Lab and principal investigator for the Fairwork project in Brazil. His research interests include platform cooperativism, worker-owned platforms, AI and work, datafication, and platform labor. rafaelgrohmann@unisinos.br