Jessica Hoffmann sent me this link to an interesting article about participatory economics in the workplace. I really enjoyed reading it particularly because this year I started working part-time at a collectively run consensus-based cooperative. Learning more about participatory economics and collectives and worker-owned co-ops feels pretty crucial to developing practices of economic justice and resistance to capitalism. Despite the slowness, constant meetings, and sometimes painful or challenging consensus process, the joy of working in a collective has not waned. It feels like a really human, experimental, resistant, trial-and-error process. I love that our dysfunctional workplace dynamics feel more likely to be about conflicting personalities than institutionalized exploitation. Dean probably has good stuff to say about workplace collectives too.
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