Gar Alperovitz: Workplace Democracy

Gar Alperovitz on workplace democracy, workers' self-management and co-ops.

Websites for more information:
http://evergreencooperatives.com/
http://www.mondragon-corporation.com/...
http://www.democracyatwork.info/learn...
http://www.thenews.coop/
http://www.democracyatwork.info/
http://shiftchange.org/

http://www.iopsociety.org/
http://www.iww.org/
http://www.afed.org.uk/
http://www.solfed.org.uk/
http://libcom.org/
http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/
http://occupywallst.org/
http://www.occupytogether.org/

http://www.garalperovitz.com/

Videos/documentaries:
"The Cleveland Model"
"The Mondragon Experiment"
"The Take"
"Together" &
"Shift Change" (trailer):
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...

"What Then Must We Do?" [full]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX-Moc...

Noam Chomsky on Workplace Democracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ugGqJ...

Richard Wolff on Workplace Democracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls7QZm...

Anarchism and Libertarian Socialism explained:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...

Democracy in the Workplace: All About Collectives

Three worker-owned businesses show what it's like to work collectively, manage a business and deal with problems in a truly democratic way. The Cheeseboard Bakery and Cheese Shop with 18 workers, Rainbow Grocery with 150 workers, and Inkworks Press with18 members, all located in the San Francisco Bay Area, are successful worker-owned businesses, and members of NoBAWC.
Margot Smith, Videomaker
www.offcentervideo.com. OffCenterVideo@aol.com

Dr Richard Wolff and Gar Alperovitz

Richard Wolff and Gar Alperovitz are both members of the Green Party and of Jill Stein's Green Shadow Cabinet. Here they share insights into Democracy in the Workplace, and worker control of the means of production.

Ben Fine: Intro to Marxist Economics (Part 2)

Ben Fine from SOAS University explains the fundamental ideas of Marxist Economics as a part of lecture series "What you won't learn in an economics degree: an introduction to heterodox economics".

The lecture was hosted by Post-Crash Economics Society Manchester and Manchester's Political Economy Institute.

Is Minimum Wage Another Distraction? Let's talk Basic Income, Shall We?

Originally posted at PopularResistance.org



Cheri Honkala of the Poor Peoples Economic Campaign and Vice President of the Green Shadow Cabinet joins the host Dennis Trainor, Jr. and the Resistance Report panel (Nicole Carty (The Other 98%), Julianna Forlano (Absurdity Today) and Joel Northam (Acronym TV Contributor) - to discuss the jobs crisis in the United States, the perpetually underemployed, and the impact of a raise in the minimum wage versus a policy that guaranteed an income for all.

[Music] The Whole F**king Thing Is Coming Down

Lyrics:

Hedge funds, derivatives, tea pot dome
wall street gambling, using your home
congress isn't gonna do a single fucking thing
because their campaign contributions all come attached to strings
The Democratic Party is a failing institution
what we need now is a real revolution

The United States is a global empire
The Factory owner is a fucking vampire
sucking wealth from the poor
committing wage theft
who will work for you when we've starved to death?

CHORUS: And the whole fucking thing is coming down x4

I work full time in a factory
but that doesn't mean I can afford to eat
I've got student loans, but no degree
so I'm gonna die working at a machine
No health insurance, we're all temporary hires
so if we get sick we'll just hurry up and die

wages so low we can't afford the rent
so we have to rely on the government
but the rich man doesn't want to pay his taxes
so the social programs, they'll all get the axe
we don't complain, we don't bitch
the only thing we've got left to eat is the rich

CHORUS: and the whole fucking thing is coming down x4