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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. 
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Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age 208 pp, $19 pbk, ISBN 9781583674635 By Ursula Huws Reviewed by Elinor Taylor “When will work be over? This question, both urgent and plaintive, increasingly imposes itself as any fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of automation is indefinitely deferred and as work intensifies in… | more |… | more…
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A review of the workplace battleground and explore the potential of social media for mobilizing social movements in labor conflicts and beyond
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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
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The Backfeed Protocol provides a comprehensive social operating system for decentralized organisations and collaborations (DCs)
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BLOCKCHAIN BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P COLLABORATION P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYblo
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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.
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On the Necessity of Transforming the Fictitious Commodities into Commons (3): Labor | P2P FoundationAs factors of production, people are no longer human beings, but commodities bought and sold in labor markets, so called wage slaves, or “human capital”.
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If the future of banking is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy.
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The use of the concept of self-management has connotations with great ideological weight, rather than concrete.
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If we fail to understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present. Excerpted from Isabell Lorey: (from the book: State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey. Verso, 2015) “If we fail to understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present. …
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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: …
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Logged labor is becoming the new norm. Excerpted from Ursula Huws: “It appears a new kind of working life is emerging. It is a life in which who you are and what you can do are displayed to the world in the form of a standardized profile: your skills and the tasks you can perform …
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From an interview conducted during Ouishare 2015, in which Sara Horowitz shares her wishes and plan for social change:
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Nathan Schneider gives an introduction to the concept of platform co-operativism and why the digital economy can learn from the tradition of co-operatives.
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The Care-Centered Economy suggests how the idea of “care” could be used to imagine new structural terms for the entire economy.
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This is a review by Birgit Daiber on the conference, “Transform! Europe, Seminar on Production and Common”, held in Rome, on March 11-12, 2016.
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In this piece, Rahila Gupta investigates the importance and impact of womens' cooperatives in Rojava.
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The 'Not Alone' report offers solution for freelance workers with analyses, useful detail and lessons from the history of co-operatives and mutual aid.
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COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYommo
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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.
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We have now entered a period…when new waves of commodification set in motion in earlier periods are reaching maturity. The new commodities have been generated by drawing into the market even more aspects of life that were previously outside the money economy, or at least that part of it that generates a profit for capitalists. Several such fields of accumulation have now emerged, each with a different method of commodity genesis, forming the basis of new economic sectors and exerting distinctive impacts on daily life, including labor and consumption. They include biology, art and culture, public services, and sociality.… | more…
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People, not corporations or governments, make things: Labor is what has produced things under every ism in history. The isms just determine who gets paid.
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Excerpted from Carlos Eduardo Martínez: To refer to this topic, and to try recreate this subject with the greatest clarity possible, it seems important to us to establish what kind of of phenomenon and/or activity we’re referring to...
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Guy Standing focuses here on the research and experiments which show basic income guarantees are working where they have been tried. The first 3.50 minutes are a dutch-language introduction to the speaker. Watch the video here:
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Excerpted from Ursula Huws, who asks the question: “How should political economists understand the new phase of capitalism that is now reaching critical mass? It has several dimensions. First, it brings new areas of life within the orbit of capital, allowing profits to be made from activities that were previously freely shared. Companies like Airbnb, …
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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 …
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