Humanity @ Work & Life

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(255 140 0 1)>HUMANITY@WORK&LIFE</strong><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)> is intended to provide hope and inspiration by serving as a resource for those interested in developing worker cooperatives as well as an introduction for those interested in virtuous cycle Solidarity Dividend alternatives to shareholder primacy capitalism practices. It is also intended to peer over incoming vision horizons and around strategy corners showing not telling how Mondragon-inspired virtuous cycles transform humanity at work globally and locally.  </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>The book was conceived in the middle of four lethal virus pandemics simultaneously threatening humanity@work: advancing extreme climate precarity withering economic class inequalities including embedded racism novel COVID-19 killing millions and a global assault on democracy. Its twofold mission:  first to be a resource for those developing hybrid model worker cooperatives and social enterprises as structural and cultural antidotes to a rising inclusive and climate-respecting Stakeholders-as-Shareholders global economy; and second to uplift and amplify critical new voices of those doing the work. The four concurrent global pandemics have shone a harsher light on inequalities in society and offer opportunities to develop hybrid worker ownership models that seed virtuous cycles. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>This book's core belief is that there is no sustaining worker voice without worker power communicated and demonstrated through solidarity democracy equality of opportunity and shared equity and wealth outcomes. Its premise is that an ineluctable foundational policy for a fair and aspirational economy working for all demands inclusive broadened and deepened stakeholder worker ownership undergirded by workplace democracy practices. Like Mondragon we believe single class equity governance is synonymous with solidarity. Every equity share guarantees the equal right to vote for change and provides the basis for power-paradigm-changing culture combining stakeholder community and individual civic mutualism stability and self-reliance to innovate defend and facilitate more fulfilled lives and dignified retirements.  </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>The core academic purpose of </span><strong style=color: rgba(255 140 0 1)>HUMANITY@WORK&LIFE</strong><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)> is to make the case as to why Mondragon is a dynamic working and evolving model for those who see the need for replicable structural change in our economic institutions and in the proverbial free market economy across physical borders and cultural silos. The Mondragon case will be detailed and include both an overview of ecosystem cooperatives and discussion of global diffusion activities that the Mondragon cooperatives embrace locally and globally as well as those from other geographies inspired by close to 70+ years of Mondragon cooperative experiences. The book will include sections that examine how cooperatives inspired by the Mondragon cooperative ecosystem in the Basque region of Spain are emerging in different communities in the USA Canada Germany the Republic of Korea and the UK.  </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>The last section of the book is intended to provide grounded inspiration about how to develop worker cooperatives and ecosystems that scale and breathe freely in a world beset by culturally induced pandemics doing their utmost to subvert democracy freedom truth and hope.</span></p><p><br></p>