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Thinking about ways of mainstreaming the co-op model, the idea that keeps coming up is something like a co-op layer on top of a site like Meetup.
The Backfeed Protocol provides a comprehensive social operating system for decentralized organisations and collaborations (DCs)
According to the Shadow Chancellor, the Labour Party will double the size of the UK co-operative sector if in power, as a way to boost the economy.
As factors of production, people are no longer human beings, but commodities bought and sold in labor markets, so called wage slaves, or “human capital”.
Okay. As in all good blues songs, this story starts with ‘woke up this mornin’…’ and goes on to bemoan conditions of the storyteller’s life. We then go on to tie in an excellent critique by Stephanie McMillan of Paul Mason’s views on Post-Capitalism and why she thinks he is wrong to claim that it …
Jay Casano reports from the recent Platform Cooperativism Conference in NYC.
This manifesto is supported by a string of personalities from the business side of the new economy as well: “Common ground for independent workers: Principles for delivering a stable and flexible safety net for all types of work “New technologies and business models are fundamentally changing the economic landscape across the country, adding value to …
Just as I am mentioning in my talks and conversations that Enspiral.org (New Zealand and beyond), las indias (Spanish-speaking world), the Ethos Foundation (UK), and Sensorica are a new kind of guild for our age, Nathan Schneider produces a interesting article for the New Yorker on the very subject, describing the co-working collective Prime Produce …
I want Madison to be seen as a birthplace of the network that is connecting every person on the planet, indirectly, to every other person on the planet, in an explicit agreement to support each other’s right to their best possible life. Is that so much to ask??? Continuing our series on P2P women we …
The latest issue of Boston Review has a lively forum on the growing power of network platform based businesses such as Amazon, Uber and Airbnb.
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This is the first of three videos that will tackle an investigation of the gender wage gap going beyond popular rhetoric and analysing its underlying causes
The 'Not Alone' report offers solution for freelance workers with analyses, useful detail and lessons from the history of co-operatives and mutual aid.
The purpose of this ETUC/ETUI conference is to discuss how the world and nature of work and employment is being changed radically by the digital revolution.
This is excerpted from the second part of an in-depth review of the book, Commun, by Martin O’Shaughnessy. Here, first in summary, are the nine propositions: * Proposition 1: it is necessary to construct a politics of the common: * Proposition 2: we must mobilise rights of use to challenge property rights. * Proposition 3: …
“The current crisis is accelerating the oligarchical counter-revolution that began in the 1970s. On the other, the crisis of salaried work is not limited to one possible outcome. It contains different possibilities, some of which favor well-being and social or individual autonomy.” * Book: La Fábrica del Emprendedor: Trabajo y política en la empresa-mundo (The …
From open access platforms to managed digital commons: how can we unleash the enormous value that distributed, autonomous production can create.
This is an important synthesis of ten years of research at the P2P Foundation, on the emerging practices of the new productive communities and the ethical entrepreneurial coalitions that create livelihoods for shared resources. I’m working with Neal Gorenflo of Shareable on a more accessible version for a broader public, but this one is for …
An update from our friends at the Chamber of Commons in Chicago
Bauwens, a pioneer of the P2P movement lays the conceptual foundations of a production system that would serve as an alternative to industrial capitalism.
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