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Why Artisans Are Building an Alternative to Etsy

NonProfit Quarterly

Long before the rise of the platform economy, artisans were already regarded as self-employed and outside the protection of national labor laws. Many crafts, such as sewing and quilting, were considered “women’s work,” allocated as much value as doing the laundry.

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Stories of Organizational Transformation: Moving Toward System Change and a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

The solidarity economy is a global movement that offers a framework to connect practices that are aligned with the values of solidarity, democracy, equity, sustainability, and pluralism (not a one-size-fits-all approach), all of which articulate a post-capitalist system that puts the welfare of people and planet front and center.

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A Reparations Roadmap for Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The movement is motivated by the belief system that harm has been done that warrants repair and healing is necessary to prevent the drivers of our inequity from being repeated. “My A year after the deed was returned, the Bruce’s great-grandsons sold the land back to Los Angeles County for the appraised value of nearly $20 million.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. Unbeknownst to me, textile manufacturing was dramatically increasing in Asia, particularly in countries like India and Bangladesh.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

The way the trade worked is that Europeans would sell manufactured goods (and horses and alcohol) to (primarily) West Africans and in exchange purchase human beings. economy, worth more than all manufacturing and railroads combined.” The three vertices of the triangle were Europe (especially Great Britain), the Americas, and Africa.