The Solidarity Economy

The Solidarity Economy encompasses a wide range of businesses and organizational models that form with people coming together to prioritize the meeting of their needs with resources. This includes cooperatives, community currencies, community land trusts, credit unions, and other DIY forms of community-led self sufficiency. Solidarity economics prioritize collective well-being rather than financial return or growth.

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Exit To Community: Strategies for Multi-Stakeholder Ownership in the Platform Economy

Nathan Schneider georgetownlawtechreview.org

Austin Robey

Solidarity Not Charity - Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy

art.coop

Austin Robey

Ampled | Direct Community Support For Music Artists

ampled.com

Austin Robey

Stocksy United

stocksy.com

Austin Robey

“We have to overcome some legal hurdles, but we could unionize musicians tomorrow,” DeFrancesco said. “SAG is like an alternate history for musicians. We’ve done all this before and won, just not within recent memory.”

Some musicians are in fact unionized. The American Federation of Musicians, with 80,000 members in the U.S. and Canada, collectively... See more

August Brown • Musicians deal with stingy streamers and AI threats, too. So why aren't they on strike?

Faith Hahn

Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

medium.com

Austin Robey

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice By Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard

psupress.org

Austin Robey

Ours To Hack And To Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

Caroline Woolard

worldpece.org

Austin Robey