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Bethnal Bling: Stir to Action
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Cooperation and its discontents. Sunday, 14 April 2013. The first number of the new print-only Stir. Magazine arrived today, and it's an inspiring read. Marina Sitrin's article on worker takeovers of factories and workshops in Argentina and Greece strikes a particular chord, because the UK's common ownership co-operatives - firms like Calverts. Share so much with them in terms of politics and attitude, even though our co-ops were founded in a different context. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Bethnal Bling: April 2013
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Cooperation and its discontents. Sunday, 14 April 2013. The first number of the new print-only Stir. Magazine arrived today, and it's an inspiring read. Marina Sitrin's article on worker takeovers of factories and workshops in Argentina and Greece strikes a particular chord, because the UK's common ownership co-operatives - firms like Calverts. Share so much with them in terms of politics and attitude, even though our co-ops were founded in a different context. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Bethnal Bling: Is worker cooperation 'flatlining' in the UK?
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Cooperation and its discontents. Monday, 19 January 2015. Is worker cooperation 'flatlining' in the UK? Says it has about 170 workers' cooperatives in membership, out of about 400 that it knows of in the country, mainly small enterprises.These figures have been consistent for a few years. Here are a few Saturday morning thoughts on the subject. Co-operatives UK defines worker coops as being those where the members are employees. Or where workers of one kind or another have a governance majority. It often...
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Bethnal Bling: Party games
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Cooperation and its discontents. Friday, 8 February 2013. Dave Boyle questioned the link between The Co-operative Party and Labour in a recent Guardian article. Yesterday, Gareth Thomas MP replied. In robust but predictable fashion. Boyle's main point is that:. The real issue isn't whether the link with Labour is effective for the movement, or even for the Co-operative Group, but whether it's the only way in which the co-operative movement can be politically active and effective.". I'm one of the growing...
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Bethnal Bling: February 2013
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Cooperation and its discontents. Friday, 8 February 2013. Dave Boyle questioned the link between The Co-operative Party and Labour in a recent Guardian article. Yesterday, Gareth Thomas MP replied. In robust but predictable fashion. Boyle's main point is that:. The real issue isn't whether the link with Labour is effective for the movement, or even for the Co-operative Group, but whether it's the only way in which the co-operative movement can be politically active and effective.". I'm one of the growing...
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Bethnal Bling: March 2014
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Cooperation and its discontents. Friday, 7 March 2014. The precarious generation of creative workers. Despite hits from tuition fees and the rising cost of living in centres like London, there was a 25% increase in the numbers of students doing design and creative arts degrees in the UK between 2003 and 2010 – up from 139,000 to 174,000, which is around 7% of the total numbers of students. 8220;The people in my network don’t really understand the difference between employment and self-employment...
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Bethnal Bling: January 2014
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Cooperation and its discontents. Saturday, 4 January 2014. Nathaniel Bacon's 'Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit' (c. 1620) is a picture that makes Alain de Botton feel less alone. Bacon was a gentleman amateur artist. He probably picked up his painting style in the Low Countries, cradle of early modern mercantilism, where buxom servants surrounded by horticultural commodities were a popular subject. I don't really get this idea of 'conscious consumerism' (ethical or otherwise) as a route t...
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Bethnal Bling: Common ownership
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Cooperation and its discontents. Sunday, 29 December 2013. I am amazed by the cooperative principles. The International Co-operative Alliance is calling for responses. To guidance papers on the principles. One of these is Jean-Louis Bancel's erudite commentary on the third principle, member economic participation. As a characteristic of cooperatives. Jean-Louis Bancel's paper refers to the particular importance of common ownership for worker cooperatives. Collective stewardship and control of the means o...
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Bethnal Bling: March 2013
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Cooperation and its discontents. Saturday, 23 March 2013. Co-operatives and strikers in Italy. In a forthcoming article for a new workers' paper, migrant logistics workers in Italy describe their fight against attacks on wages and conditions at IKEA and TNT:. This is going on in the Piacenza region of Emiglia Romagna, a supposed stronghold of worker co-operation. There's growing interest in the UK in co-op consortia as an organisation method for self-. Saturday, 9 March 2013. Co-operative autonomy, co-op...
