Carla Young

I study how people organize stuff, with and without technology.

[Jonas Pentzien @JonasPentzien]

@WZB_Berlin @ioew_de @PCC_Global @TheNewSchool @Fairbnb_coop @MUnibertsitatea At⏰3PM CET, we'll learn how #platformcoops can contribute to the formation of a #cooperativecommenwealth. Speakers include @spicerjason @Pinfairo Carla Young + Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal💥To join👇
https://t.co/jYNn1atG7R

[IÖW | @[email protected] @ioew_de]

We need more #feminism & #femtech for the #cooperative #DigitalEcoonomy.
Gender inequalities (access, career, harassment) are still found in platform #coops. Even at #TheNewCommonSense, more than half an hour should be dedicated to feminist issues, criticizes
@lilaroja

[IÖW | @[email protected] @ioew_de]

#TheNewCommonSense now starting:
First @PCC_global conference convened in 🇪🇺
➡️Let's forge the #Cooperative #DigitalEconomy!
👇👇Livestream: https://t.co/nmJzqfop0H
@wzb_berlin @thenewschool @MUnibertsitatea @enMONDRAGON @HumboldtUni @JWI_Berlin
@icacoop @CICOPA @CoopsEurope

[Ecornet Berlin @Ecornet_Berlin]

Erkenntnisse aus dem Gutachten zur Definition von #Unternehmen der Sozialen Ökonomie▶️ Dr. Carla Young @ioew_de auf der #SocialEconomyBerlin Konferenz @soceconberlin @SEND_ev @SenWiEnBe

[Katherine K. Chen @KatherineKChen]

Organizational Imaginaries now published! Co-edited by @victortanchen and myself. Check out discount code & abstracts by contributors @ksobering, @JonathanPremin1, @spicerjason, @cleechuvala, @zecardinal & others https://t.co/AiyCv7mG4Z

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

I wrote a new COD post, "A New Purpose for Corporations?" responding to the Business Roundtable's statement. Structure, not purpose, gets the goods. @JosephBlasi @NCBACLUSA @RU_SMLR @coopwatercooler
https://t.co/TuRpFXyN8J

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Super excited for the #digitalSTS field guide! It's been such a solid process of building the volume from the ground up, with an amazing network of peer authors. Huge thanks to the incredible editor team.

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Very disappointing to see #UIC administration disregard its most valuable resource -- people. We get plenty of social justice rhetoric, but when it comes to the cash, UIC's priorities are elsewhere. Note how the UIC admin email employs notions of fairness and scarcity to divide.

[UIC GEO @uicgeo]

Yesterday the UIC administration sent an email to the campus community about GEO's contract negotiations and our recent strike vote. Here is our response: https://t.co/WwYBVT1ax5

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

https://t.co/qvHIdU0Jde

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Reading Barry Lynn's "Cornered" on the reign of monopolies in the U.S. and elsewhere. All of my interviewees in the food co-op field point to consolidation as a force that has changed their world. But few make this message front and center: https://t.co/tDivmf9hCa

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Reading Barry Lynn's "Cornered" on the reign of monopolies in the U.S. and elsewhere. All of my interviewees in the food co-op field point to consolidation as a force that has changed their world. But few make this message front and center: https://t.co/tDivmf9hCa

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Consolidation in the food sector marches happily on...and UNFI, major supplier of food co-ops, is feeling the heat: "If UNFI’s big bet fails, the playing field could shrink further still." https://t.co/IOOxoOnzK6

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

(3/3) 2) "Returns to scale" are more problematic for geographically dispersed organizations: in the absence of density, few benefits arise from a virtual system at national level. However, some local and regional centers experience returns to scale, such as Minneapolis/St.Paul.

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

(1/3) "Scale" is the no.1 topic in the cooperative field right now. Most of the time, people mean "growth." I'm thinking about what "leveraging scale" means for cooperative meta-organizations such as National Co+op Grocers:

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Sometimes you wonder, and the universe responds (in this case via Seminary Bookstore Coop). This book is helping me think about what it means to "scale alternative organizations" and niches. New questions abound... https://t.co/XPLnAsee27

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

(2/3) 1) "Economies of scale" can be gained from standardized practices at small co-ops that facilitate volume in a consolidated system; this has been the main focus of scale-leveraging activities, because it provides cost savings, for example in purchasing.

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

(3/3) As a result, non-cooperative enterprises drive the story for co-ops. Questions: How far does cooperative solidarity extend? Organizational boundaries? Local, regional ecosystem? Industry? How would different stakeholder models affect P6 commitment?

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Insight from #kelsoworkshop session on U.S. worker co-op history and Knights of Labor: (1/3) Principle 6, cooperation among cooperatives, has been unstable and often trumped by organizations' situational self-interest. When "the going got tough," cooperatives stopped cooperating.

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

(2/3) Thus, cooperatives expose(d) each other to competition. Because they were also reluctant to employ the same strategies as non-cooperative enterprises (investment that would reduce labor and thus disadvantage workers), they weren't competitive.

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Melissa Hoover's powerful keynote: The worker cooperative movement is "having a moment" -- a surge in activity, foundings, more directed partnerships, and "narrative power." Call: let's not waste this moment, let's provide an active response to challenges and take risks.

[Maureen Conway @conway_maureen]

Great to hear Melissa Hoover @DemocracyCollab share her perspective on the history of the #Cooperative movement and vision for its future at the Kelso workshop @RU_SMLR

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Looking forward to this Saturday's Cooperative Economy Summit in Chicago. See what's out there, think about what could be, and how to get there. https://t.co/UneZXs4I39

[Carla Young @zecardinal]

Gentrifying neighborhoods need real estate cooperatives to make historic buildings available for community use. Instead, developers are gracing us with ever more architecturally poor "luxury" condos. https://t.co/eEi1fkzX3X via @BlockClubChi

[SASE @SASE_Meeting]

Hey, Sociologists! Speak Up! https://t.co/f9vMQS3Jnw