by Brian Lombardozzi & Michael A. Peck Since the 1970s, America has counterbalanced high per capita GDP with increasingly unequal income distribution. “Winners-take-all” results produced stagnant wages, accelerated redlining, declining mobility, increased economic class divisions and racial tensions at levels not experienced since the Great Depression. From ride hailing and sharing apps to personal data algorithms, hegemonic social media…
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Michael Peck Interview | Everything Co-op
Vernon Oakes interviewed Michael Peck on Everything Co-op on May 18th. Vernon and Michael discussed “MRAGA” – Make Rural America Great Again: An Infrastructure Road-Map for Rural America’s High-Road Institutional Stewards. Listen to the interview.
Humanity at Work – MONDRAGON, a social innovation ecosystem case study | Young Foundation
From The Young Foundation: MONDRAGON is a large global business owned by its workers delivering economic and social equality by combining success in the marketplace with social benefit. We found that MONDRAGON, with annual revenues of over €12 billion (equivalent to those of Kellogg’s and Visa), doesn’t just have social values as a nice-to-have, like many corporate social responsibility or…
Two 1worker1vote.org Co-Founders Named 2016 BALLE Local Economy Fellows
We are so proud that TWO of our co-founders – Bill Generett and Kristen Barker – and have been selected as BALLE Local Economy Fellows! From the BALLE website: Thirty-six leaders representing innovative community and economic development solutions in 29 U.S. and Canadian cities have been selected to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economy’s (BALLE) fourth cohort of Local…
Successful entrepreneurship requires much determination | Gaztenpresa Blog
Originally published in Spain, in the Gaztenpresa blog, we had it translated into English: Yes. You can. If you really want it you can convert yourself into an entrepreneur. An expert is telling you this. Oscar Muguerza, the Director of Trade of LABORAL Kutxa Enterprises and Gaztenpresa’s coach, participated in the “Innova Bilbao 2016,” an event that set the standard for…
Sustainable Jobs, Sustainable Local Economies | The Abundant Community
John McKnight and Peter Block talk with Michael and Kristen about how co-operatives are emerging as powerful forces of change and the role citizen-workers have in bringing new opportunities and family-sustaining jobs to local neighborhoods. Listen to their conversation via the Abundant Community.
Unions and Cooperatives: How Workers Can Survive and Thrive | Truthout
Brian Van Slyke from the TESA Collective published Unions and Cooperatives: How Workers Can Survive and Thrive on Truthout. In part, he writes: The benefits from this collaboration have already started to bloom. The Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative, made possible because of the USW and Mondragon partnership, has helped launch two cooperatives: Our Harvest and Sustainergy. And even more are on the way.…
How Co-ops Build Stronger Communities, a New Economy and a Better World | Truthout
Written by the team at the TESA Collective: Cooperatives are businesses and organizations democratically owned and managed by the people they serve. They come in many shapes and sizes: from a handful of people to thousands upon thousands of members. Some are owned and run by workers, others are owned and governed by consumers, still others are for producers (like…
Worker Cooperatives in a Globalizing World | Great Transition Initiative
Mondragon’s former president Josu Ugarte was recently interviewed for the Great Transition Initiative. We think this is one of the most relevant summaries of Mondragon available. We also appreciate the challenge and potential summed up in the last exchange: What is the future of large, global cooperatives? Is the Mondragon story unique or replicable? The Basque roots of Mondragon remain…
Sharing Economy Is Redefined During Two Simultaneous Events, Nov. 13 and 14
– Union Co-op Symposium and Platform Cooperativism Event Offer Look at What’s Happening on the Ground and on the Web in the New Economy – Cincinnati, Ohio and New York City – The two most exciting gatherings around worker-ownership in the country are happening at the same time this month: the Union Co-op Symposium in Cincinnati and the Platform Cooperativism convention…
