Call for Nominations: Economic Democracy Book Prize
The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing seeks nominations for the 2025 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize. Books that have been published between 2021 and 2024 are eligible for nomination. Authors are encouraged to self-nominate. The award is intended to honor a book (or edited volume) that makes a significant contribution to the advancement of economic democracy. That advancement could be to our theoretical understanding, to research, or to the real-world development of employee share ownership, workers’ cooperative ownership, profit sharing, or any newly emergent form of workers’ ownership and/or democratic governance in the economic sphere. The book must have appeared in print by an independent publisher either as a hard cover or paperback (or both) in these years. Books that have only appeared digitally are not eligible. Note that a book will only be considered if an approved PDF of the book is submitted as part of the nomination process. The 2025 prize will be awarded in January 2025. The final awardee(s) will receive a cash prize and be asked to give a presentation about their book at an Institute conference.
Please submit your nomination(s) via this link by Friday, September 6, 2024, at 11:59pm.
Previous Book Prize Winners
2024 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize
Shared Winner: Cooperatives at Work by George Cheney, Matt Noyes, Emi Do, Joseba Azkarraga, Marcelo Vieta, and Charlie Michel
Shared Winner: Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet by R. Trebor Scholz
Honorable Mention: Co-operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina’s New Worker Co-operatives by Denise Kasparian
Honorable Mention: Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory by Bernard E. Harcourt
Honorable Mention: Create Amazing: Turning Your Employees into Owners for Explosive Growth by Greg Graves
Honorable Mention: Humanity @ Work & Life: Global Diffusion of the Mondragon Cooperative Ecosystem Experience by Christina A. Clamp and Michael A. Peck
2023 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize
Winner: Ownership: Reinventing Capitalism, Companies, and Who Owns What by Corey Rosen and John Case
Honorable Mention: Common Wealth Dividends: History and Theory (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee) by Brent Ranalli
Honorable Mention: The People’s Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina by Katherine Sobering
Honorable Mention: Working Democracies: Managing Inequality in Worker Cooperatives by Joan S. Meyers
2022 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize
Winner: Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy, edited by Katherine K. Chen & Victor Tan Chen
Honorable Mention: The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations by Gregory K. Dow
Honorable Mention: Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy by David Ellerman
Honorable Mention: Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión by Marcelo Vieta
2021 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize
Winner: Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership, edited by Frank Shipper
Honorable Mention: Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism by Isabelle Ferreras
Honorable Mention: The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few by Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard