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Richard D. Wolff on Worker Cooperatives versus Capitalist Enterprises & the History of the Labour Movement

11. July 2018
Richard D. Wolff on Worker Cooperatives versus Capitalist Enterprises & the History of the Labour Movement


In this video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about how worker cooperatives compare with capitalist enterprises and whether there are any examples that exhibit their efficiency. Furthermore we discuss the history of the labour movement and what role it played in acquiring benefits for the public that are still in effect today.


VIDEO: Worker Cooperatives versus Capitalist Enterprises & the History of Labour Movement | With Richard D. Wolff


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ABOUT RICHARD WOLFF

Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, and the University of Paris I (Sorbonne).

He is a co-founder and contributor of Democracy at Work, a non-profit organization that promotes democratic workplaces as a key part of a transition to a better economic system. Wolff has published many books and articles, both scholarly and popular. Most recently, in 2012, he published the books Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Haymarket Books) and Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT University Press). The New York Times Magazine has named him “America’s most prominent Marxist economist.


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