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The financial crisis and ensuing recession have changed attitudes to employment relationships.The decline of trust in business and its societal value have illustrated that employment relationships are not merely of a transactional nature, but intrinsic to identity and well being. Reconnection with employee ownership is an important step for social democrats in winning back the [...]
Mutualism may be a useful alternative model for public services and private companies but the left must go wider and deeper than that particular model. Social democrats need to embrace the Big Society idea and extend it into the economic realm. In his essay for this series, William Davies makes the observation that while the Government [...]
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