Latest Workercooperative Podcast Episodes
Measuring the Impact of Employee Ownership in the United Kingdom
Owners at Work - July 10, 2024 20:03 - 55 minutesGuest: Campbell McDonald, Ownership Works SUMMARY: Much of the work for raising awareness and advocating for supportive policies for further expansion relies on data collection. When making the case for employee ownership, it is one thing to say that, in theory, employee ownership can bene...
Labor Vs Capital Struggle in US Intensifies
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - June 11, 2024 20:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses The Washington Post's exposure of the corporate rich sponsoring police repression against student protests and how Boeing rewards CEOs while it exhibits the airlines' worst safety record. In addition, the UAW loses union election ...
Gina Schaefer on The Power of Telling Your Story
Owners at Work - June 11, 2024 20:04 - 31 minutesGuest: Gina Schaefer SUMMARY: For 38 years, the OEOC has gathered hundreds of people from across the employee ownership community at our Annual Conference and every year, we invite a keynote speaker to address those in attendance. This year, we invited Gina Schaefer, the founder, CEO, and s...
Employee Ownership in the Americas: A Path to Shared Prosperity
Owners at Work - June 07, 2024 16:28 - 35 minutesSUMMARY: When we think about expanding awareness about employee ownership, we often think of the United States and how much more work we have to do. However, the movement to expand the prevalence and awareness of employee ownership goes well beyond US borders. In this episode, we highlight an...
Economic Update (Special Edition): Exclusive interview with Dr. Cornel West
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - June 05, 2024 00:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThird Party Politics and Social Change We would like to present a special edition of Economic Update featuring an exclusive discussion between Professor Richard Wolff and Dr. Cornel West. This program was recorded in June, 2023, but unfortunately we were unable to air this important discussion a...
New Energies Organizing Unions
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - May 28, 2024 20:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff comments on US megabanks once again taking new off-the-books risks, Elon Musk endorsing right-wing undemocratic census proposals and Fossil Fuel industry executives bribe Trump with campaign donations. In addition, we highlight the many US...
Roots of a Surging US Labor Movement
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - May 21, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E20] Roots of a Surging US Labor Movement In this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses the reasons why the official United States unemployment rate is currently low in comparison to historic rates; We also highlight why U.S. restaurants are losing business. We the...
Prospects for a Political Turn Left
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - May 14, 2024 20:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E19] Prospects for a Political Turn Left This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the successful unionization drives that is sweeping across US universities (example: Boston University), We highlight the facts that disprove Biden's "great economy" claims and why in...
Uneven Development a Key Problem of Capitalism
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - May 07, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E18] Uneven Development a Key Problem of Capitalism This week in honor of Karl Marx's birthday over this past weekend, Professor Richard Wolff offers a discussion of Marx's important theory of uneven development as central to capitalism. We show its widespread existence, using examples...
The Phenomenon of China
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - April 30, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E17] The Phenomenon of China This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff dedicates the entire show to the economic developmental achievement of China, together with the historical background that motivated that achievement. We analyze the uniqueness of both the economic philoso...
A Critique of Government Spending
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - April 23, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E16] A Critique of Government Spending This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff devotes this program devoted to how to understand government spending. How it shapes the larger society. We will focus on two questions 1) What is the government spending on? and 2) How is that m...
A Sea Change In US Labor's Militancy
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - April 17, 2024 17:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E15] A Sea Change In US Labor's Militancy In this week’s Economic Update Professor, Richard Wolff examines US spending on war materials for Ukraine and Israel, we will discuss Chinese Electric Vehicle imports and the US's protectionist response, and we will highlight the possible conve...
The Myth of Black Buying Power
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - April 10, 2024 03:02 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E14] Economic Update: The Myth of Black Buying Power This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses how the capitalist political economy can explain the Baltimore bridge disaster, we explain why raising minimum wages helps big vs small businesses. We highlight the recent...
Resurgent Labor Organizing In The South
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - April 02, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E13] Resurgent Labor Organizing In The South This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the US Treasury Department charges Apple as monopoly, Georgia's state government sides openly with employers against unions, two union members decide to enter important elections ...
How Capitalism Distributes Power
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - March 26, 2024 23:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E12] How Capitalism Distributes Power Updates on resurging child labor in US, colleges athlete vote to join unions, unionization sweeping not-for-profit charities (hospitals, museums, etc) such as MassMoca in western Massachusetts. Major discussion of how capitalism concentrates power ...
The European ESOP – A New Model of Employee Ownership
Owners at Work - March 22, 2024 18:31 - 57 minutesSUMMARY: When we look into the field of employee ownership three major models come to mind, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), worker cooperatives, and employee-owned trusts. But practitioners are always looking to improve existing models and in some rare cases develop new ones. In this f...
Patriarchy and Capitalism
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - March 19, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E11] Patriarch and Capitalism This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the UAW union’s latest moves. Their organizing drives at auto plants, their efforts to form unions among employed and free-lance journalists. In addition, we will highlight New York Governor Kat...
Debris From A Declining Empire
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - March 12, 2024 19:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E10] Debris From A Declining Empire This week's episode of Economic Update we discuss we discuss United Kingdom politician George Galloway by-election victory, and the raised minimum wage in UK. We will comment on Elon Musk's lawsuit against the NLRB, as Trader Joe, Starbucks, and Amaz...
Capitalism, Gender, And A Split Society
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - March 05, 2024 21:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E09] Capitalism, Gender, And A Split Society This week's episode of Economic Update we discuss we discuss the underemployed of US college graduates, failed anti-Russian sanctions, the collapsed UK birthrate, and expanding wars in the Middle East, we will dive into the costs and risks i...
Breaking Up With Capitalism
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - February 27, 2024 21:57 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E08] Breaking Up With Capitalism This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we discuss the Philadelphia University of the Arts Faculty Union and its struggles; we clarify what declining inflation does and does not mean; we answer the question: as to why s...
Capitalism and Tax Injustice
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - February 20, 2024 21:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E07] Capitalism and Tax Injustice This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we discuss Germany's recession, California fast-food workers unionize, How the war in Ukraine boosts US stock market, corporate stock holdings, while hurting most wage/salary inc...
The U.S. Tax System: Designed For Economic Injustice
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - February 13, 2024 22:39 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings[EU S14 E06] The U.S. Tax System Designed For Economic Injustice This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we will be discussing the increasingly more common corporate threats to force remote workers back to working onsite. We then turn to Ukraine war e...
As The Empire Crumbles
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - January 23, 2024 17:08 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E03] As The Empire Crumbles ****************************************************************************** In this week's episode of EU, Prof.Wolff delivers updates on the mass closing of Greyhou...
Corporations vs Democracy
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - January 16, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E2] Corporations vs Democracy ****************************************************************************** In this weeks show, Prof. Wolff analyzes the corporation. It stands as a basic institutio...
The U.S. China Decoupling Myth
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - January 09, 2024 17:41 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E1] The U.S. China Decoupling Myth ****************************************************************************** Happy New Year! For our first Economic Update of 2024, Professor Richard Wolff discusses...
Facing The Human Rights Crisis
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - December 19, 2023 17:37 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings****************************************************************************** [EU S13 E46] Facing The Human Rights Crisis ****************************************************************************** This week's episode of Economic Update features updates on an analysis of Philadelphi...
Politics, Economics & Chocolate: Capitalism's Flaws & Failures
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - December 12, 2023 16:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings****************************************************************************** [EU S13 E45] Politics, Economics & Chocolate: Capitalism's Flaws & Failures ****************************************************************************** This week's episode of Economic Update features updates...
When Labor Movements Rise
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - November 21, 2023 20:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsEconomic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every Monday. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show we all have known, needed and loved since 2011 and to celebrate, we're going to release a few batches ...
Inequality Undermines Health & Healthcare in the U.S.
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - November 14, 2023 22:20 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsEconomic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every Monday. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show we all have known, needed and loved since 2011 and to celebrate, we're going to release a few batches ...
Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - November 07, 2023 23:39 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsEconomic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every Monday. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show we all have known, needed and loved since 2011 and to celebrate, we're going to release a few batches ...
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