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Introduction

In the economy, we need to change corporate charters and other laws to establish that private businesses must be responsible to the long-term public interest, the environment, and the welfare of their workers -- as well as earn profits for their owners. Workers and community stakeholders must be included on corporate boards. Consumers need to use their power through boycotts and the threat of boycotts to persuade businesses to operate responsibly. Workers need to insist that their pension funds be invested in a socially responsible manner. Shareholders need to assert their power within corporations. All of these forces need to converge in support of workers’ right to organize, form unions, and maximize workplace democracy, including the development of collaborative work teams in contrast to traditional, authoritarian hierarchies. And we need to promote worker-owned businesses with workers electing representatives to the boards of directors on the basis of one person, one vote -- partly because worker-owned businesses are less likely to shut down and move to another country. In short, we need truly democratic capitalism.

The resources in this section reflect this perspective.

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