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Teaching and Learning Guide for “Gender In/equality in Worker-owned Businesses”

Katherine Sobering | January, 2015

This teaching and learning guide accompanies the article “Gender In/equality in Worker-owned Businesses,” which reviews existing literature on gender in businesses with employee stock ownership plans, worker cooperatives, and communes. Worker ownership has attracted renewed interest as a possible solution to the social and economic problems confronting our society. In worker-owned businesses, workers have greater … Read More

Gender In/equality in Worker-Owned Businesses

Christine L. Williams, Jessica Thomas, Katherine Sobering | October, 2014

Gender scholars have developed a significant body of scholarship on the reproduction of gender inequality in work organizations. However, the vast majority of that research has been conducted in non-profit organizations or in employer-owned businesses. In this article, we review the existing literature on gender in worker-owned businesses. We begin by defining three distinctly different … Read More