Left Forum 2017: Worker/Owner Coops: Doing Better Than Capitalism - Part 2 of 3

More than 60 Worker/Owner businesses across New York City and hundreds across the United States; Are they Utopian Proletarian Experiments or the building blocks for a new Economy that can do better than Capitalism. This workshop, featuring Economist Richard Wolff, Worker/Owner Cooperative Leaders and Representatives from the Community that has grown to incubate and support them, will explore these critical questions for a growing movement towards real change in the United States.

Chair:
Alan Schulman - Veteran Public School's Educator and Activist; Program Coordinator, Democracy At Work New York

Speakers:
Richard D. Wolff - Democracy At Work

Pablo Benson-Silva - Director of Membership and Communications at the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYCNOWC).

Rebecca Lurie - CUNY, Murphy Institute for Labor and Urban studies

Sean Abbot Klafter - Social Studies Teacher, NYC Department of Education

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