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The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
Caitlin C. Rosenthal didn't intend to write a book about slavery. She set out to tackle something much more mundane: the history of business practices. But when she started researching account books from the mid-1800s, a period of major economic development during the rise of industrialization in the United States, Rosenthal stumbled across an unexpected source of innovation.
French court orders Goodyear to stop stripping factory
A French court has ordered US tyre company Goodyear to stop dismantling its former factory in the northern town of Amiens, which a group of ex-employees wants to take over, a union lawyer said Monday.
Elinor Ostrom, The Commons and Anti-Capitalism
In 2009, the American political economist Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics. Strictly speaking, she was neither an economist nor was the prize a Nobel but, in fact, the Swedish bank prize. Born “poor”, in her own words, in California in the summer of 1933, she published Governing the Commons in 1990 and died in 2012 of cancer.
Uber Wants to Reorganize the Economy? Workers Can Play at that Game Too
The global newswire Associated Press announced this January that it will no longer refer to the app-based cab-hail service Uber, as “ride-sharing.”
The move follows criticism that services like Uber and Lyft are very far from sharing; they are taking more than they’re giving.
What’s Next for the World’s Largest Federation of Worker-Owned Co-Ops?
But what if there were an alternative corporate model for the president and other world leaders to shape their thinking around? A model that was still globally competitive but empowered local workers and addresses income inequality?
Radical Routes plans to free housing co-ops from the mortgage trap
Radical Routes is developing a new model for co-op housing to expand the number and type of homes in co-operative ownership and prevent carpetbagging.
New Economy Loan Fund
The New Economy Loan Fund promotes healthy, thriving communities by investing in projects that expand access to living wage jobs, affordable housing, green and cultural spaces, and other local needs. The Fund prioritizes projects that are based in NYC’s low income neighborhoods and communities of color and that promote cooperation, equity and social justice.
Capitalism: A History of Violence
Even after five years of relentless austerity and the continuing disorientation and weakness of much of the Left around the world, the fire ignited by the 2008 economic meltdown has yet to be extinguished. One need only be reminded of Syriza’s rise to power in Greece – arguably the most important electoral victory for a Left party in Europe in almost half a century.
Update on the VIOME Struggle
Dear friends and supporters of the struggle of VIOME for self-management:
