Melissa Hoover as Part of Who Owns the World? PCC Conference at The New School 2019

Summary

Melissa Hoover (Democracy at Work Institute) at Who Owns the World Conference, convened by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School in November 2019. Melissa is a speaker for the Digital Co-op Fractals: Iterations, Patterns, Questions event.

About the event: For this session, we are tracing emerging patterns within the cooperative digital ecosystem. We asked each speaker to pose a question, which they’ll then answer for 10 minutes. Then, we will open it up to everybody for a People’s Q&A. Here is the question that will guide Melissa Hoover’s discussion:

What are the essential elements of platforms that aggregate the power and resources of workers rather than atomizing them?

Melissa Hoover is the founding Executive Director of the Democracy at Work Institute, the think-and-do-tank that expands worker cooperatives as a strategy to address economic and racial inequality. A leader in the worker ownership movement for over fifteen years, Melissa helped start and grow the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the national grassroots membership organization for worker-owned businesses.