Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?

The employee ownership movement is growing, and one of its biggest champions is also a private equity heavyweight. Is this meaningful change, or just window dressing?

SOURCES:Marjorie Kelly • , distinguished senior fellow at The Democracy Collaborative. Corey Rosen • , founder and senior staff member of the National Center for Employee Ownership. Pete Stavros • , co-head of Global Private Equity at KKR.

RESOURCES: • " Private Equity Is Starting to Share With Workers, Without Taking a Financial Hit • ," by Lydia DePillis ( The New York Times, • 2024). • " Private Equity Heavyweight Pushing Employee Ownership • ," ( 60 Minutes, • 2024). • " Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission • ," by Ethan Rouen, Dennis Campbell, and Andrew Robinson ( HBS Case Collection, • 2023). • " Research on Employee Ownership • ," by the National Center for Employee Ownership (2023). Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises, • by Marjorie Kelly (2023). • " Is Private Equity Joining — or Co-Opting—the Employee Ownership Movement? • " by Marjorie Kelly and Karen Kahn ( Fast Company, • 2022). • " How Well Is Employee Ownership Working? • " by Corey Rosen and Michael Quarrey ( Harvard Business Review, • 1987).

EXTRAS: • " Are Private Equity Firms Plundering the U.S. Economy? • " by Freakonomics Radio • (2023). • " Do You Know Who Owns Your Vet? • " by Freakonomics Radio • (2023). • " Should You Trust Private Equity to Take Care of Your Dog? • " by Freakonomics Radio • (2023).