In March, the Socrates Program and the John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation joined forces to bring the Institute’s seminars to South America for the first time. Leaders from Colombia, the United States, Chile, Panama, Japan, El Salvador, the United Kingdom, and Mexico gathered for debate and dialogue in Cartagena, Colombia. MIT Media Lab’s William Powers led a seminar on “Order Amid Chaos: Major Trends Shaping the Future of Technology, Business, and Society,” and Georgetown University’s Sonal Shah led “Can the Market Fix the Market?” Participants considered artificial intelligence, market limitations and biases, and new policies for South America and the world. They also explored the coastal city of Cartagena and took in its rich history and culture. The Socrates Cartagena Seminars are part of an effort to establish an international Institute partnership in the Andean region. Topics and challenges explored within seminar sessions became launching points for continued debate and inspiration for future programming. The McNulty Foundation, Luis Javier Castro, Sonia Sarmiento, Julia Rojas, and Francisco Staten and Jennifer Burris sponsored the Socrates Cartagena Seminars.
Socrates in Colombia
Publications Section 4: Strengthening Practices to Improve Job Quality
Tools: Employee Ownership
View tools and resources related to employee ownership.
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Centering Workers in Workforce Development
The Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance collaborates with employers and stakeholders to boost employment, earnings, and equity for local workers.
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Lessons and Leadership To Foster Economic Justice for Illinois Workers
LEP trains workers to promote equity, enforce rights, build unions, develop leaders, ensure workplace safety, and advance economic justice.
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Worker Owned and Worker Driven
While the rideshare apps have increased convenience, they’ve eroded job quality. See how the Drivers’ Cooperative is helping to end exploitative conditions.
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Creating Employee-Owned Businesses That Provide Good Jobs and Succeed
Through employee ownership, The Industrial Commons is building a new Southern working class that erases the inequities of generational poverty.
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Strengthening the Hidden Resilience Workforce
We see the effects of climate change, but we rarely see the people who help to rebuild — and they often lack safe conditions, decent pay, or benefits.
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Advancing a Pro-Worker, Pro-Climate Agenda in Texas
The Texas Climate Jobs Project advances a pro-worker, pro-climate agenda — helping to solve the climate crisis while creating millions of good jobs.
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Organizing and Coalition Building for Structural Change
LAANE, led by Job Quality Fellow Roxana Tynan, is fighting to build an economy rooted in good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment.
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Organizing Unemployed and Underemployed Workers
UWU, led by Job Quality Fellow Neidi Dominguez, engages unemployed/underemployed workers, a population that has not been mobilized at scale since the 1930s.
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How Local Journalism Can Bring Communities Together
MIT Center for Constructive Communication Director Deb Roy explains how the caricatures Republicans and Democrats paint of each other diverge from reality, and the ways local newsrooms can leverage their “trust capital” and emerging technology to promote listening and understanding amid disagreement.