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On Half Past Capitalism host Dru Oja Jay talks to people building alternatives to capitalism. On this episode Dru is joined by Sam Gindin, former research director of the Canadian region of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and chief economist and Assistant to the President of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), to discuss his critique of cooperatives and his ideas about the broader challenges of building socialism.

Gindin is the author of "The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union", co-author of "The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire" and "The Socialist Challenge Today" (with Leo Panitch) and "In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives" (with Greg Albo and Leo Panitch).

His articles for Jacobin mentioned in this episode include:

Chasing Utopia: Worker ownership and cooperatives will not succeed by competing on capitalism's terms. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/workers-control-coops-wright-wolff-alperovitz

What a Socialist Society Could Actually Look Like
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/socialist-society-future-cooperatives

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