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New Preview! Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work

Moving Images • February 28, 2012 • 3 Comments

At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks and big business, and growing inequity in our country, employee ownership offers a real solution for workers and communities. Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work is a new documentary (to be released in July, 2012) that highlights worker-owned enterprises in North America and in Mondragon, [...]

Inspired by Mondragon, Chicago works to bring back world class manufacturing

Moving Images • January 13, 2012 • 2 Comments

Chicago once had many large and small industries that provided thousands of family wage jobs. But with the decline in US manufacturing, many of those industries and jobs have disappeared. . Now a coalition of business, labor, education, and public officials called the Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council [CMRC] is determined to restore Chicago as a [...]

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One of the barriers to fostering cooperative values and businesses in North America is the lack of awareness of the benefits that well organized cooperatives with good business practices can offer to workers and communities. Educating the public to the cooperative approach to business is an important contribution which Shift Change can make.” — Ted Howard, Executive Director of Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland

The basic purpose of Shift Change is to encourage the development of work cooperatives in North America as one solution to our severe economic problems as well as a means for a regional economy to compete successfully in the global economy. We at the CMRC can see using the documentary in many ways. — Dan Swinney, Executive Director of Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council

The North American worker cooperatives and the Mondragón cooperatives in Shift Change will tell a compelling story of real possibilities at a time when many think there are no solutions to this current difficult economic situation. — Paul Hazen, President and CEO of the National Cooperative Business Association

The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives strongly supports this project. We believe Moving Images’ film on worker cooperatives will be a thorough, well-researched and inspiring work. — Melissa Hoover, Executive Director of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

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New Preview! Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work

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