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A recent op-ed in The New York Times discusses the blow that the restaurant sector received by the COVID-19 virus. In it, authors argue that the solution to the symptoms of our disfunctional system is a worker-centered organization. NYT is...

Empirical studies have confirmed the intuition that employee ownership - to reach its full potential - should be followed up by an increased employee autonomy and participation. In the USA, the best results in terms of productivity, employee...

The documentary film American Factory is introducting to the mainstream progressive audience the problems that the global mobility of capital impose on the local population and environment.  At the first (and to some digree cinycal) seeing, the...

The COVID-19 crisis further illuminated the vulnerabilities of non-standard workers and additionally hardened their economic situation. The legislation on EU and member states level lags severly behind the social requirements of the precarious...

By now, we have become close-to immune to hearing about the unsustainable levels of inequality plaguing our society. But it gets even worse - most of the academic and public policy research focuses on the income inequality, while it neglects the...

Democracy Collaborative together with Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations published guidelines that should help different actors around the world to promote employee ownership as the model for ownership transition with SMEs. "With the...

We have recently published a paper proposing to direct government Covid-19 aid into employee ownership. Our proposal was published by the Review of European Economic Policy and is accessible here. Similar ideas have appeared elsewhere. Felix...

Employee ownership in its various forms has the potential to transform our economy…. because it is concerned with the distribution of future wealth rather than the distribution of present wealth; because it provides incentives both to capital and...

David P. Ellerman and Tej Gonza, co-founders of the Institute for Economic Democracy, presented the European ESOP model at this year's Beyster Symposium. For those of you who are interested in the idea of having the European version of the most...

We need to be clear in Europe that employee share ownership is not a single model - in fact there are three main models of employee share plans. 1) Employee Share Purchase Plans (ESPPs). In this model, employees buy shares of the company they work...