worker collectives

How self-managed companies use the labour time app

How Can Economic Cooperation Work Without Exploitation – Collectively and Self-Managed? Our working hours app is a web application that implements the theory of labor-time accounting in technical form. It enables self-managed enterprises to organize their production in a connected, planned economy based on the labor time contributed. But how does this work in practice? […]

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Interview in the Platypus Review

In the online edition of the current Platypus Review you can find a detailed interview with us: Democratic Labour-Time Calculation in and for the 21st Century An interview with the Initiative for Democratic Labour-Time Calculation (IDA) from Berlin about the history of the council movement, grassroots democratic economics, and concrete utopias. Download as PDF

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Detail Portada Principios fundamentales edicion espaniola 2024

Newsletter October 2024

From October 11–13, the *IV European Meeting of the Workers’ Economy* will take place at Can Batlló, Barcelona. On Saturday afternoon, we will have the opportunity to present the Working Time Accounting initiative. We look forward to exchanging ideas with comrades from Europe and Latin America. The meeting is organized by the anarcho-syndicalist union CGT.

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Workers’ meeting in Barcelona

Workers’ Meeting in Barcelona From October 11–13, the IV European Meeting of Workers’ Economy will take place in Barcelona. On Saturday afternoon we will have the opportunity to present the Working Time Accounting initiative. We look forward to exchanging ideas with comrades from Europe and Latin America. The meeting is organized by the CGT. Program:

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New Brochure: ‘Working Time Instead of Money

We are very pleased to be able to publish a text by Guenther Sandleben as a brochure. The text is based on a lecture he gave last year at our invitation and bears the title “Working Time Instead of Money. How Enterprises Can Calculate with Working Time.” The text makes it clear that working-time accounting

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Survey among collective enterprises

We contacted over one hundred collective enterprises across the country to find out whether they are interested in the concept of labour-time accounting. We are delighted that 21 collectives have already responded. Of these, 18 expressed interest in concrete economic alternatives to capitalism and want to learn more about labour-time accounting. In addition, 17 collectives

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