Exploring Welfare State, Labor Participation, and Design Principles for Vibrant Organizations

In this episode we speak with Richard Bartlett, co-founder of the tech cooperative Loomio, and The Hum, management consultancy for organizations without managers. In the conversation, we cover his history and experience with patterns of decentralized organizing picked up from the punk scene and Occupy Wellington in the early 2010s, what he learned from those patterns, and how he co-created new organizational structures that put them into play with his co-founders and fellow workers. This episode will be particularly interesting for listeners who want practical advice on how to organize in DAOs, cooperatives, and other organizational forms that seek to work in non-hierarchical ways, but still get meaningful work done.

Here are the show notes:

• Employment Participation Rate in Europe: https://www.bruegel.org/2017/09/employment-in-europe-and-the-us-the-eus-remarkable-strength/
• Unemployment rate by country in EU: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1115276/unemployment-in-europe-by-country/
• United States labor participation rate: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-participation-rate
• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything)
• Resilience of Cooperative Model in Recessions: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/documents/publication/wcms_108416.pdf
• Cooperatives in a Global Economy: Key Economic Issues, Recent Trends, and Potential for Development,  https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/91777 (Smith, Stephen C., Rothbaum, Jonathan)
• Teams of Teams: Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, Stanley McChrystal -  https://www.mcchrystalgroup.com/library/team-teams-new-rules-engagement-complex-world/
• Patters of Decentralized Organizing,  Forthcoming by Richard Bartlett - https://leanpub.com/patterns-for-decentralised-organising/
• Internal Family Systems - https://ifs-institute.com/