Participatory Economics in Cities and Unions: A Match Made in Heaven
This is a very interesting article which provides a vision of how the movement of participatory budgeting in cities could be linked to participatory budgeting in unions for the purpose of democratizing them. Participatory budgeting in cities, without the working class, lacks resources and numbers. Participatory budgeting in unions will continue to be isolated from communities in the cities. They need each other!
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Bruce
Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his four books: From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World Co-Authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present and Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia WA.