Post-capitalist imaginaries: The case of workers' collectives in Greece
Abstract
How OuiShare is Scaling a Shared Vision Across Countries
OuiShare is a collective – an international community focusing on the collaborative economy and open source.
We produce knowledge, organise events, and connect people, ideas and projects around the sharing economy, fab labs, crowdfunding, the peer-to-peer economy, and society in general.
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