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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Labour Shadow Chancellor pledges to double the co-operative economy | Co-operatives UK Newsroom

Labour Shadow Chancellor pledges to double the co-operative economy | Co-operatives UK Newsroom | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Co-operatives UK has welcomed the announcement (Wednesday 20 April) by the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, that the Lab
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Co-operative economy & the Commons

Co-operative economy & the Commons | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
John Restakis, coordinator of FLOK Society‘s research stream on the social-solidarity economy and institutional innovation, will be with us at the pre-festival event of CommonsFest 2015, which will be held in Heraklion on April 17-18.
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Building Co-operative Power | Grassroots Economic Organizing

Building Co-operative Power | Grassroots Economic Organizing | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Building Co-operative Power introduces the history and concept of worker co-operation and relays past and present stories of worker co-operatives in the Connecticut River Valley. It offers practical insights on co-op governance, management, communication and conflict highlighted by cautionary tales and sagas of personal transformation of current and former co-operators. It addresses obstacles and opportunities for building a co-operative economy and making worker co-operatives an increasingly important part of the U.S. economy. The authors outline a regional vision based on strategies of worker co-operatives in the Connecticut River Valley as a guide and inspiration for co-operative development in any region.

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Co-op awarded for impact on local economy - Co-Operative News

Co-op awarded for impact on local economy - Co-Operative News | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The East Anglian Daily Times Business Award for Food and Farming Excellence went to the co-op for its commitment to supporting local producers and bringing local goods to its stores.

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Democratically controlled, co-operative higher education

Democratically controlled, co-operative higher education | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Higher education is disintegrating under misguided neo-liberal reforms. Could co-operative universities, member-run and member-led, be the answer?
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Report: Austin’s cooperative economy tops $1 billion in annual...

Report: Austin’s cooperative economy tops $1 billion in annual... | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Austin’s first cooperative opened almost 120 years ago, and the city has experienced occasional bursts of co-op activity since then.
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Policies For A Worker Cooperative Economy in NYC - Shareable

Policies For A Worker Cooperative Economy in NYC - Shareable | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Photo courtesy of Green Worker Cooperatives How can the new New York City government support the growth of worker-owned cooperatives? A team from the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies and national and ...
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Anarchist economics – Peer-to-peer (P2P) | Management-Survival ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) is not limited to technics, however covers any communal procedure with a peer-to-peer active, if those peers are persons either computers. Peer-to-peer as a expression derived as of the well-liked idea of P2P dispersed program design that components assignments either workloads amid peers. This program construction was made fashionable by file parting setups like Napster, the foremost of its sort within the belated 1990s.

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