European Trade Union Congress – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:29:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 62076519 Jeremy Rifkin on how to transform unions and coops for the digital age https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/jeremy-rifkin-transform-unions-coops-digital-age/2016/07/14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/jeremy-rifkin-transform-unions-coops-digital-age/2016/07/14#respond Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:54:19 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=57884 Unions and cooperatives should start focusing on millenials and adapt to distributed governance, and if they do, they will win from the new monopolies, argues Rifkin in this interview for the European Trade Union Congress (ETUC/ ETUI). Rifkin is sometimes accused on not problematizing the transition to the zero-marginal cost society, but in this interview,... Continue reading →

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Rifkin is sometimes accused on not problematizing the transition to the zero-marginal cost society, but in this interview, he stresses the importance of struggle and self-organization for the control of production and the distribution of its fruit.

Video interview Jeremy Rifkin, President Foundation on Economic Trends, ETUC/ETUI conference ‘Shaping the new world of work’, 27-29 June 2016

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