Tag: economic democracy
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United We Stand
Humanity has a collective action problem. We won’t be able to solve the many crises we’re facing until we first create a system to cooperate together. All humans are already organized into real communities of many different types in which people can and do trust each other, such as our workplace, school, religious or cultural…
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Utopia: Industrial Workers Taking the Wheel
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Back in the 1970s, with unemployment rising and British industry contracting, workers at the arms company Lucas Aerospace came up with a pioneering plan to retain jobs by proposing alternative, socially-useful applications of the company’s technology and their own skills. The ‘Lucas Plan’ remains one of the most radical and forward thinking attempts ever made by workers to…
