I’m all for higher minimum wages, unions, paid leaves and other forms of worker protection, but it seems like the most forms of worker protection focus on maintaining a division between an employer(s) who owns the business and the employee who makes money for the business but does not own it. IMO, this division is unethical and exploitative because it denies the worker the full value of their work.
Are there any political or social movements that push for policy or legislation that makes all businesses to be worker owned cooperatives?
Communism (or Marxism more specifically)
Tangential to your post, it was bizarre seeing the rabidly anti-“left” politicians of my state (in Brazil) loudly praising the local culture of cooperativism and proudly signing into law the recognition of it being part of the immaterial culture of the state.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned mutualism, as it sounds like that’s exactly what you’re looking for. Mutualists aim to create an economy of worker cooperatives, and abolish long-term absentee ownership.
They don’t ALL need to be cooperatives. Enough of them force other businesses to behave. The government could be facilitating this rather than mandating it.
