Online Talk: Shift Change [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: Presentations/Discussions
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Shift Change
Mark Dworkin, Esteban Kelly & Melissa Young
In this program, we offer a special showing of the documentary film “Shift Change” that tells the little known stories of employee-owned businesses that compete successfully in today’s economy while providing secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces. Film preview: https://vimeo.com/38342677. The filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young are with us to talk about the film. They are joined by Esteban Kelly, Executive Director for the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. He is an important leader and creative force in solidarity economy and co-op movements. Esteban will provide an up-to-date overview of worker coops in the U.S. today.
At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks, big business, and growing inequity in the United States, employee ownership offers real solutions to the economic crisis faced by workers and communities. In producing “Shift Change,” the filmmakers gained unprecedented access to the 60-year-old network of cooperative businesses of Mondragon in the Basque Country of Spain. They also visited many successful examples of such businesses in the U.S. Together with worker coop members around the US, Dworkin and Young explain how worker coops are organized and the advantages for worker owners and the community when they democratically control how their company runs.
What we do The Center engages in local community support and outreach to promote and advance initiatives and movements toward social justice, grassroots empowerment and democracy, and environmental sustainability. It is also devoted to critical analysis of the processes and impacts of globalization, both local and international. The Center works to develop alternative socio-economic systems that conserve and share the world’s cultural, economic, and environmental resources for the benefit of humankind.
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