Richard D. Wolff

idea of workers’ self-directed enterprises (which I will call WSDEs throughout this book), I offer a new version of an old idea: that production works best when performed by a community that collectively and democratically designs and carries out shared labor.

Unprecedented numbers of foreclosed and homeless people live not far from unprecedented numbers of homes that stand empty.

The Great Depression provoked the formation and immense successes of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The CIO organized millions of industrial workers into unions for the first time, bringing about the greatest unionization wave in US history.