How different levels of employee ownership performance relate to the valuation of U.S. firms according to the latest research. https://www.corpgov.net/2026/03/employee-ownership-performance-in-u-s-public-companies/

#corpgov #ESOT #ESOP #employeeownerhip #workerownership #productivity #incentives #ownership

In 1936, Catalonia didn’t just 'take over' factories; they legislated a new economy.

My translation of the 1936 Decree recovers the legal 'Source Code' for worker control, bridging 90-year-old theory with modern practice.

Full PDF and analysis in the Library: https://rootandbranch.online/library/decree-1936/?v2

#SocialEconomy #Coops #History #Translation #Catalonia #WorkerOwnership

As AI reshapes the economy, a new paper argues worker ownership—via co-ops & ESOPs—could ensure a fairer, more inclusive future.
Read here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4913167

#AIFuture #WorkerOwnership #EconomicEquity

if it needs full time middle management and a csuite, maybe it's just to big, hmm?

#shredsuperiority
#federatedcoops
#workerownership

“‘I don’t think you solve the systemic economic problems just with worker co-ops,’ [John Duda of @redemmas] says. ​‘There needs to be a larger context in which worker co-ops are embedded⁠ — a larger fight. But I think there’s something really important and really precious about worker co-ops as a laboratory or a kind of learning.’”

@OsitaNwanevu writing for In These Times: https://inthesetimes.com/article/worker-cooperatives-baltimore-maryland

#cooperatives #workerCoop #workerOwnership #workplaceDemocracy #RedEmmas #Baltimore #OsitaNwanevu

A good start....

even better would be a world without landlords, bosses, priests or kings!

#organize #Unionize #generalstrike #directaction #sabotage #workerownership #HOUSINGISARIGHT

@shauna
> they do not have collective ownership by the workers and users, and without that, nothing stops private equity from destroying all the beautiful things they *do* have

Agreed. Same is true in reverse.

As John Abrams says in his book Companies We Keep, giving workers ownership without democratic management is like selling someone a car without giving them the keys;

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tcAx4vKfr2A

#Cooperatives #WorkerOwnership #JohnAbrams #CompaniesWeKeep

new praxis just dropped

https://archive.is/P1cUy

"Though #Teamshares says that it sometimes pays below market price for a company, it installs a new president that it trains and grants 10% of the business’s stock to its employees. Moreover, it promises to increase those employees’ ownership to 80% within 20 years."

#WorkerOwnership (but closer to the ESOP kind)