Ownership Works can be a conversation starter and spur conversations about who is creating the value and who should capture it.
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Are the Barbarians at the Gate?
Part 3: Is this real employee ownership?
Continue ReadingIan Mohler: A Piece of the Pie Is Better than No Slice at All
Offering equity to workers is a good thing, and we can argue later about what share of the pie is most appropriate.
Continue ReadingDelilah Rothenberg: A step in the right direction, but only one piece of the puzzle
As long as the wealth of GPs grows exponentially faster than that of everyone else, economic inequality will continue to grow.
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Part 2: If equity shares increase workers’ productivity, who benefits?
Continue ReadingJim Bonham: Enter the Dragon?
Making modest investments to a non-profit in order to take shelter from the negative public sentiment resulting from the massive and growing wealth inequality in America is a cheap way to diffuse heat.
Continue ReadingIan MacFarlane: Can we call this “employee ownership”?
It seems they’re doing what big capital does: take over a concept like employee ownership and make it their own in order to make more money.
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Part 1: Can private equity be trusted to prioritize worker benefit?
Continue ReadingIs Private Equity about to Co-opt Employee Ownership?
What the launch of the nonprofit Ownership Works could mean to the employee ownership movement.
Continue ReadingCentral States Manufacturing Gives Workers Early Access to ESOP Wealth
Company helps workers meet financial needs before they retire.
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