Latest Workercooperative Podcast Episodes
What Socialism Needs to Succeed
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - October 31, 2023 22:06 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsEconomic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every week. 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 of...
American Families Today are Crisis Ridden
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - October 24, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsNOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: Despite the multiple setbacks we have experienced over the last several months in our efforts to continue producing and releasing Economic Update here on YouTube, we are very excited to announce the return of Economic Update to YouTube as of today. Over the next few days/wee...
Corporate Greed VS Labor: The Struggle Intensifies
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - October 10, 2023 16:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWe are excited to announce that this week's episode of Economic Update is the first episode we have been able to release in the same timeframe as we had been doing for years until the difficulties of this past spring. This means Economic Update is back to its regular programming schedule with a ...
Nexus Community Partner’s Reflections on the Kendeda Fund’s Big Bet Grant
Owners at Work - October 10, 2023 14:35 - 24 minutesSUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee ownership and the investment made by Kendeda was historic. Over 5 years a total of $24 million...
Project Equity’s Reflections on the Kendeda Fund’s Big Bet Grant
Owners at Work - October 10, 2023 14:35 - 22 minutesSUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee ownership and the investment made by Kendeda was historic. Over 5 years a total of $24 million...
The Fund for Employee Ownership’s Reflections on the Kendeda Fund’s Big Bet Grant
Owners at Work - October 10, 2023 14:34 - 17 minutesSUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee ownership and the investment made by Kendeda was historic. Over 5 years a total of $24 milli...
ICA Group’s Reflections on the Kendeda Fund’s Big Bet Grant
Owners at Work - October 10, 2023 14:33 - 30 minutesSUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee ownership and the investment made by Kendeda was historic. Over 5 years a total of $24 million...
Private Profits VS. Public Treasure - Saving The Redwoods
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - September 20, 2023 22:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsNOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: Despite the multiple setbacks we have experienced over the last several months in our efforts to continue producing and releasing Economic Update here on YouTube, we are very excited to announce the return of Economic Update to YouTube as of today. Over the next few days/wee...
Profit & Inequality: Two Driving Forces of Capitalism
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - September 20, 2023 17:53 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsNOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: Despite the multiple setbacks we have experienced over the last several months in our efforts to continue producing and releasing Economic Update here on YouTube, we are very excited to announce the return of Economic Update to YouTube as of today. Over the next few days/wee...
Cooperatives at Work with George Cheney
Owners at Work - September 07, 2023 14:24 - 59 minutesSUMMARY: For too long, cooperatives have been cast to the margins of our economy and discussions around economic development and community building. Yet, there are numerous examples throughout the US and across the globe demonstrating how cooperatives serve as a viable organizational form, allo...
Today's Class Struggles with Chris Hedges
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - July 26, 2023 19:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsTHANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING, YOUR PATIENCE, YOUR KINDNESSES, CONCERNS, QUESTIONS, DEVOTION, YOUR SOLIDARITY & MOST IMPORTANTLY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT HAS MEANT MORE THAN WE CAN SAY OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS THAT WERE RIFE WITH TRIALS & TRIBULATION, BETRAYAL & HEARTACHE...
Capitalism's Costly Contradictions
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - July 12, 2023 22:17 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWE OWE YOU ALL AN APOLOGY WE OWE YOU ALL AN EXPLANATION WE OWE YOU ALL OUR DEEPEST SENSE OF GRATITUDE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, YOUR UNDERSTANDING, YOUR PATIENCE, YOUR KINDNESSES, YOUR CONCERNS, YOUR QUESTIONS, YOUR DEVOTION, YOUR SOLIDARITY & MOST IMPORTANTLY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT H...
Unpacking the Meanings of Ownership
Owners at Work - June 09, 2023 13:25 - 52 minutesSUMMARY: If one thing is true, its that the word ownership has baggage – every person has a different conception of what it means. In this episode we speak with Chris Mackin, who has worked in the employee ownership community for decades, to talk about a recent article he published on the mult...
Varoufakis' Critique of Capitalism Today
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - April 27, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsYanis Varoufakis, elected member Greek parliament, joins Prof. Wolff on this week's show and offers his original, critical perspectives on (1) the banking crisis, (2) the decline of the US empire and US capitalism, (3) the mass uprisings of the French and Greek working classes in Europe, (4) the...
The Emerging New World Economy: A New Empire, a Multipolar World, or a Post-Capitalist System
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - April 20, 2023 15:53 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsFour key changes drive a new world economy emerging from the old. First is capitalism's transition from neoliberal, globalizing to nationalistic capitalism. This includes the shift of capitalism's center from western Europe and the US to Asia and the global south and also includes the deepening ...
Preparing to Sell Your Company – What You Need to Know
Owners at Work - April 13, 2023 15:53 - 33 minutesSUMMARY: In this episode Chris Cooper speaks with Eric Zaleski and Michael Rosendahl of PCE Investment Bankers, about what business owners should be thinking about, and doing, to prepare for a business succession. In many cases, business owners see succession planning as something that will ta...
Today's Medicare for All Battle with Dr. William Bronston
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - April 13, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff discusses US deaths from Covid, poverty in the US labor force, US and Canada cooperate against immigrants, US warfare vs China's peacemaking, Amazon profits from cutting back on "free" shipping. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr. William Bronsto...
Economic Outlook and What it Means for Company Valuations
Owners at Work - February 20, 2023 19:39 - 23 minutesGuest: Eric Flickinger and Matt Silla SUMMARY: In this episode we sit down with two valuation experts, Eric Flickinger and Matt Silla of Apple Growth Partners. The conversation is wide ranging and includes discussion of high level trends we saw in 2022 that will impact company valuations,...
Inequality’s Insidious Spread - COVID-19, India, Insurance
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - February 16, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on India's extreme inequality and its lesson, employers squeeze employees with "non-compete" job contracts, and how the profit motive distorts the concept of insurance. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr Stephen Bezruchka on how...
Unionization, Marxism and Education
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - February 09, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff shares updates on Starbucks union growth; Texas journalists and Yale graduate students/employees unionize, strike, win; Western Mass Labor Federation denounces Biden's denial of railway workers' right to strike; two major kinds of US tax injustice: (1) exempting ...
2023 World Economic Trends
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - February 02, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff identifies and examines the larger economic dimensions and trends of three key aspects of today's global economy: Russia/Ukraine war, Europe's quandary, and the decline of the US empire. Attention focuses on the immense direct and indirect costs of the war in Ukr...
A Corporatized America with Chris Hedges
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - January 26, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff explains why capitalism does not deserve credit for improved living conditions, Home Depot billionaire blames US capitalism's problems on US workers being "lazy, fat, and stupid," Southwest Airlines as example of failures by both corporations and their gov't "reg...
From Family-Owned to Employee-Owned - The Hamill Manufacturing Company
Owners at Work - January 24, 2023 18:11 - 34 minutesGuest: Jeff Kelley, Hamill Manufacturing Company SUMMARY: In this episode we speak with Jeff Kelly, former CEO, selling owner, and current Chairman of Hamill Manufacturing, a Pennsylvania based precision and fabricating company which serves the defense, aerospace, and power generation indus...
Economics for a New Year
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - January 19, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses US spending for war in Ukraine paid for by higher interest rates and inflation hurting middle and small businesses ; a rational transport system is NOT electric cars; an appreciation of the "degrowth" impulse with a critique of the degrowth movement's f...
Lessons from the Field: Communicating Ownership
Owners at Work - December 12, 2022 21:52 - 31 minutesIn this episode we sit down with Bina Smith who is the HR Generalist and Communication Committee chair at Palmier Donavin, a 100% employee-owned company. The interview covers a wide range of areas and draws on Bina’s 8 years of experience serving on her companies communication committee. The dis...
Persuasion vs. Polarization
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - November 23, 2022 18:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff discusses the massive strike of Canadian public employees; economics of the unemployed; business owners,executives and lawyers dominate US state legislatures; and how rising interest rates push the most vulnerable to the margins of US capitalism. In the second ha...
The EO State Centers (Owner to Owner Podcast Rebroadcast)
Owners at Work - November 21, 2022 21:03 - 55 minutesSo, what exactly are state employee ownership centers? What do they do, and why do we need more of them? This episode is a re-broadcast of an interview originally aired by Owners to Owners – another podcast that focuses on employee ownership. Jesse Tyler, the host of Owners to Owners, sits down...
The Terminal Crises of Global Capitalism
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - November 17, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsJoin d@w for virtual event Marxism For This Moment: A Conversation with Richard Wolff & David Harvey on Friday, November 18th at 1pm ET (New York, UTC-4). Buy your tickets here: https://www.democracyatwork.info/marxism_for_this_moment_richard_wolff_david_harvey **If you cannot make the liv...
Nomi Prins on the Distorted US Financial System
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff - November 10, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about a new Congress report on huge US wealth inequality; Angela Merkel on relying on Russian oil and gas, the irrationality of 20,000 immigrants dumped on NYC, and Harvard exploiting its tax-exempt status. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews D...
Maintaining Culture Through Rapid Growth and Change
Owners at Work - November 09, 2022 19:08 - 49 minutesSUMMARY: In this episode we speak with Deanna Colombo of Butler/Till a women owned, 100% employee-owned, and Certified B Corporation marketing agency located in Rochester NY. We talk about all things culture and communication, and how both can be maintained through periods of rapid change and gr...
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