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Is the Cooperative Economy Next in a Post-Consumer World?

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New article by SCORAI member Maurie Cohen. For a significant part of the 20th century, the Manufacturing Economy generated unprecedented material prosperity in the United States. Then, as well-paying factory jobs migrated to corners of the world where labor is much less expensive, it was the Information Economy or the Service Economy that provided gainful … Read more

“Preparing for the End of Consumer Society” by Maurie Cohen

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SCORAI member Maurie Cohen has recently written a new article piece titled “Preparing for the End of Consumer Society” which is published on truth-out.org. Give it a read! Excerpt By famously implementing the $5 per day wage in 1914, Henry Ford was the first industrialist to recognize that a consumer society can only function when workers have … Read more