Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet - Couverture rigide

Scholz, R. Trebor

 
9781839764554: Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet
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ISBN 10 : 1839764554 ISBN 13 : 9781839764554
Editeur : Verso Books, 2023

Synopsis

What if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages?

Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Rothschild Book Awards

Platform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their own platform―an internet where platforms such as Twitch, Twitter, and Roblox were owned by their streamers, users, and creators. What if small fishing communities in Mexico or farmers in Kerala had the power to determine what data they collected about their work and how they utilized that data?

Platform cooperatives are not a figment of the utopian imagination, but rather a reality that is transforming industries today. Collectives that leverage technology offer an urgent and practical solution to shift how businesses are owned and controlled, allowing workers to make decisions together. In this book, researcher and activist Trebor Scholz explores how these new forms of business, powered by peer principles, are paving the way for a more equitable economy that benefits everyone.

Own This! sets out a program that could change the ways we live, work, and organize.

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À propos de l?auteur

Trebor Scholz is a scholar-activist and founding director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) and the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School in New York City. In 2014, he introduced the concept of "platform cooperativism" as a way of bringing the co-op model into the digital economy. Scholz's articles and ideas have appeared in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, Le Monde, and The New York Times, among many other publications.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1839764554
ISBN 13 
9781839764554
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  1839764562 ISBN 13 :  9781839764561
Editeur : Verso Books, 2030
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