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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

How Tech Moves Fast and Breaks Workers In 2021, IT for Change, with support from the Ford Foundation, undertook a major study of the digitization of the economy to try to understand how the internet has affected work and workers’ rights. Workers also face substantially more surveillance , in varied and disturbing forms.

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Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Who owns an enterprise, and what rights are associated with that ownership, determines a large part of who controls and benefits from the economy. The retailer Publix and the food company King Arthur Baking Company are both owned by ESOPs. Conventional enterprises typically have a single class of ownership, delineated by shares.