Should more publicly traded companies have an ESOP, and should employee-ownership advocates spend time and resources figuring out ways to make that happen?
At first glance, the answer to both questions is, “Of course ...
By Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Elizabeth Anderson’s remarkable book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It, published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. It’s headlined “communist dictatorships in our midst.” )
Imagine a government that assigns almost everyone a superior whom they must obey. Although superiors give most ...
[Editor’s note: The following essay turned up in Employee-Owned America’s Christmas stocking in December 2018. It was evidently delivered not by Santa but by a time traveler from the not-too-distant future.]
By Christopher Michael
In the United States, the employee ownership community has its favorite example: Publix Supermarkets. Founded in 1930, Publix started an employee ownership program in 1959. With more ...
Quietly, over the past fifty years, an iconoclastic scholar named David Ellerman has been laying the intellectual groundwork for an employee-owned economy.
No one should underestimate the importance of such an effort. Adam Smith and others built the philosophical ...
The stock market casts a long shadow over the US economy. Most of the large companies that dominate the marketplace are not owned by their founders or original investors; they are owned by individuals and institutions who buy and sell shares in the public ...
Let’s imagine that some far-sighted donor wants to give $10 million or $20 million to help spread employee ownership in America. What would we—where “we” is the community of employee ownership advocates—propose to do?
Naturally, we’d do more of what we’re already ...
