“In the speech, King said: “I still believe that organized labor can be one of the most powerful instruments to do away with this evil that confronts our nation that we refer to as segregation and discrimination.”

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Very exciting to see the emergence of cooperatives in the open science space - something we're thinking a lot about too!

asterisk.coop

A study covering all Italian regions finds strong associations between the employment of cooperative firms and the resilience of overall regional employment. Employment is often valued more highly than profit in cooperatives due to their democratic structure. 👩‍🔧📊👷

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Kaixo, we are in Basque Country today, visiting Arrasate/Mondragón HQ. Mondragón has more than 70,000 worker-owners. To learn more - exploremondragon.com/en/.

#cooperatives #ownershipeconomy #solidaridad

Buy differently. Buying from community co-ops (food/banking/insurance) & worker owned spreads the wealth locally & laterally instead of pyramidal.
#DICC #DICC-DivestInCorporateControl
ncbaclusa.coop/resources/co...

Thanks the brilliant @gorwa.ca for including my book Governable Spaces in this @jacobinmag.bsky.social review essay: jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...

“While some states…depend almost exclusively on co-ops and other consumer-owned electric utilities for this vital public service, less than one percent of California ratepayers are members of electric co-ops. But it wasn’t for lack of trying.“

www.gspower.org/history/what...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

To celebrate the growth of #AcademicSky I made a new starter pack for people interested in thinking how to better harness (open!) social media platforms to enhance research collaboration, communication, synthesis and discovery 🧪 Let me know in the replies if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/4zhshcr

How can we navigate towards sustainable
#data models via emancipatory datafication strategies amid the current noise and hype around #AI?

#AI4SI #Chapter in Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures Promises & Pitfalls #Routledge👇

www.routledge.com/Digital-Tech...

#OpenAccess t.co/Gtlhq3jIwA

"...co-operatives’ initial U.S. development was stymied by two field competitors, the race-based system of ownership of people, and economic liberalism’s system of “wage slavery,” which manifested through investor-owned firms."

academic.oup.com/book/58054/c...

"S Group has about 2.5 million members...representing 78 percent of Finnish households, along with 41,000 employees, 1,984 business locations, and an annual revenue of €13.5 billion last year. S Group accounts for fully 47 percent of the Finnish grocery market."

prospect.org/world/2023-1...

"The investor-owned corporation is the conventional form for structuring large-scale enterprise in market economies. But it is not the only one."

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

"This chapter introduces the book’s central puzzle: Why are co-operative businesses rarer at scale in the United States than in most other rich democracies?"

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