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efsworkerscafeReadings

  1. Farhad Manjoo.   A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck. New York Times, March 2, 2016.
  1. Gar Alperovitz. Socialism in America is Closer Than You Think. The Nation, February 11, 2016. Retrieved from Solidarity Economy.Net
  2. Shaila Dewan. Who needs a boss? New York Times magazine. March 25, 2014.
  1. History of Cooperative Movement profiling 1844 Rochdale Cooperative

  1. Cabot Cheese. Cabot honors the Rochdale Cooperative Principles.
  1. Cabot Cheese. About Us.
  1. Mondragon: A Better Way to Go to Work? The Oklahoma City Catholic Worker.

8.  Mondragon Weathers Financial Storm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-b_KvyMzOs[/youtube]

Reading questions — WRITTEN RESPONSES REQUIRED

  1. Outline (5) forms of what Alperovitz (reading #2) envisions as an emergent, decentralized “pluralist commonwealth.”
  2. What are your responses to these readings?  About the possibility of creating a social order guided by more democratic forms of organization?  How might that happen?