worker ownership – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:08:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 62076519 Who Owns The World? The 5th conference on Platform Cooperativism https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/who-owns-the-world-the-5th-conference-on-platform-cooperativism/2019/10/24 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/who-owns-the-world-the-5th-conference-on-platform-cooperativism/2019/10/24#respond Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:07:51 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=75562 Check out Who Owns The World?, the fifth conference on “platform cooperativism,” November 7-9, 2019 at The New School. We are convening one hundred fifty speakers from over thirty countries to meet each other, co-design, and learn about a wide range of topics:  worker power in the platform economy, antitrust, misogyny and racism in co-ops,... Continue reading →

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]]> Check out Who Owns The World?, the fifth conference on “platform cooperativism,” November 7-9, 2019 at The New School.

We are convening one hundred fifty speakers from over thirty countries to meet each other, co-design, and learn about a wide range of topics: 

  • worker power in the platform economy,
  • antitrust,
  • misogyny and racism in co-ops,
  • ecological sustainability,
  • best practices for cooperation including the allocation of startup funding,
  • the potential of platform co-ops for data trusts,
  • data co-ops,
  • new models for distributed governance,
  • and data sovereignty.

Highlights include Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All in conversation with Wilma Liebman, former chair of the NLRB.

Policy facilitators 

Kirsten Gillibrand, United States Senator; John Martin McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (opposition Finance Minister) of the Labour Party, UK; Dieter Janecek, member of the German Bundestag;  New York Assemblymember Ron Kim,

Platform co-op founders

Mensakas, Equal Care Co-op, Up&Go, Salus Coop, Fairbnb, Smart, 

Fairmondo, NeedsMap, Stocksy United, Cataki, Cotabo, Resonate, Core Staffing Cooperative, 

Scholars 

Juliet Schor, Mark Graham, Joseph Blasi, Jack Qiu, Gar Alperovitz, Sandeep Vaheesan, Koray Caliskan, Jessica Gordon-Nemhard, 

platform co-op incubators and other organizations providing infrastructure support

Start.coop, Unfound, Sharetribe, IDRC

Tech co-ops 

Sassafras, CoLab, Startin’blox, Cooper Systems

Allied community groups 

Sixth Street Youth Program, Techo, Peer to Peer Foundation, Young Farmers of America, Data 4 Black Lives, The New School Hip Hop Collective, The Fairwork Foundation

Union and co-op leaders

United States, Japan, Indonesia, France, Sweden, and India.

Coming to us from Zambia, Hip Hop artist PilAto, a.k.a Zambia’s Voice of Inequality, will perform a remake of Childish Gambino’s This Is America. The New School Hip Hop Collective will stage a night of Liberation. Prof. Daniel Blake and his Music for Political Action Fall 2019 course at The New School selected and researched the history of songs that relate to our event. You’ll hear them in the breaks. Stefania de Kenessey and vocalists Lisa Daehlin (soprano) and Waundell Saavedra (bass) will perform their live rendition of the platform co-op anthem! 

Lastly, the artist Gabo Camnitzer will stage a children’s strike with Sixth Street Youth Project, and a film screening with Astra Taylor (in person). 

Convened by

Trebor Scholz with support from Michael McHugh

REGISTER NOW

Lead image: spinning lights by aaronisnotcool 

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]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/who-owns-the-world-the-5th-conference-on-platform-cooperativism/2019/10/24/feed 0 75562 OPEN 2018 – Narrative debate: Putting the employees in charge https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-2018-narrative-debate-putting-the-employees-in-charge/2018/11/22 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-2018-narrative-debate-putting-the-employees-in-charge/2018/11/22#respond Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=73530 In the final narrative session, and keynote debate of OPEN 2018, Niki Okuk, Founder of Rco Tires, Guy Watson, Founder and Chair of Riverford Organic and Indra Adnam discuss how we can challenge the dominant model of capitalist business and the de facto pyramid structure of management in order to enable a more equitable society.... Continue reading →

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]]> In the final narrative session, and keynote debate of OPEN 2018, Niki Okuk, Founder of Rco Tires, Guy Watson, Founder and Chair of Riverford Organic and Indra Adnam discuss how we can challenge the dominant model of capitalist business and the de facto pyramid structure of management in order to enable a more equitable society.

What does it take for owners and managers to understand and liberate the true value of placing workers in charge of the business? How can we encourage the development of new, and the transformation of ‘conventional’ businesses, to become worker owned enterprises? What assumptions do we need to challenge to break the strong-hold of rapacious capitalism as the the dominant form of business?

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]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-2018-narrative-debate-putting-the-employees-in-charge/2018/11/22/feed 0 73530 The Future of Work Where do Industrial and Service Cooperatives Stand? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-future-of-work-where-do-industrial-and-service-cooperatives-stand/2018/03/29 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-future-of-work-where-do-industrial-and-service-cooperatives-stand/2018/03/29#respond Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:30:00 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=70178 Presenting a new report from CICOPA (the International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives). Here is the press release. The organization of work and of the production of goods and services is experiencing profound changes that may strongly alter the way we work and the future of work itself. Cooperative employment tends to be more sustainable... Continue reading →

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]]> Presenting a new report from CICOPA (the International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives). Here is the press release.

The organization of work and of the production of goods and services is experiencing profound changes that may strongly alter the way we work and the future of work itself.

Cooperative employment tends to be more sustainable in time, suffer less income inequality, tends to be characterized by a better distribution between rural and urban areas, and enjoy a higher level of satisfaction and self-identity than the average. Cooperatives are also a large laboratory experimenting innovative and sustainable forms of work and work relations within the enterprise with continuous creativity and innovation. Almost a century-old model of work organisation based on worker ownership is proving its remarkable modernity to adapt to new challenges when work and working conditions are threatened.

The strategic paper analyses four challenges contributing to the transformation of work, present and future:

  • technological change and the knowledge economy
  • change in demographic, societal and environmental trends
  • globalization and de-industrialization
  • working conditions, inequality and social protection

How do industrial and service cooperatives react to these challenges? What are the most recent innovative cooperative models, based on worker ownership, being established in response? CICOPA’s strategic paper on the Future of Work attempts to answer to those questions and address recommendations to policy makers in that field.

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