Welcome to NoBossNews #3, which is new and improved in ways other than the new address. It took a longer than expected to get this issue out, mostly because I spent the summer relocating to Homer, Alaska.
There are a few changes that you will notice in this issue. Foremost, there will be a much higher proportion of writing by people other than myself. In addition, we will start straying from the idea of a single-issue issue. There will be more variety, for your reading pleasure. I tried to make a mixture of practical and political, scholarly and mad-as-hell.
In the last issue, I may have sounded like I was losing the faith, but rest assured, I believe that freeing oneself from the whims and tyrannies of a boss is a high goal: Our society has a number of crises with which to deal, and if we are ever going to stop putting bandages on capitalism and the related environmental destruction, and attack the cause of the symptoms, we will have to do it collectively. Obviously, that is a huge order, and democratic decision making is not possible in a group of six billion and counting. So we need to practice our skills, start small and work up to larger issues that effect entire watersheds, (and eventually continents). And I can't think of a better place to start than in the workplace.
Sweat Equity and Your Worker Co-op by Peter Hough: This article sets forth a system whereby workers can be credited for unpaid work in startup enterprises.
Excerpt from a business plan for a collectively-run internet "store" by Judson: This excerpt argues the need for three separate types of meetings.
Why Economists are Wrong About Coops by Ramon Vela Cordova: A debunking of the myth that co-ops are more inefficient that capitalist businesses.
Why I Quit Outside In by Johannes Sabat
Surly Anarchist Janitor Part 2 by Chavo Cheque
Organizing for Economic Democracy by Bill Bradley
We Don't Have a Boss, What Do We Need a Union For? by Fhar Meiss
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