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 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?
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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?
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What the launch of the nonprofit Ownership Works could mean to the employee ownership movement.
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Using funds from the State Small Business Credit Initiative, states could accelerate transitions.
Continue ReadingThe Case for Investing in Employee Ownership
Stanford Social Innovation Review article argues for taking capital investment to scale.
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