Platform Cooperatives and Poverty Eradication: Building on the Legacy of Johnston Birchall
Morshed Mannan,
Simon Pek,
Trebor Scholz
Abstract:Birchall made tremendous contributions to research on cooperatives, including the contributions cooperatives can make to tackling poverty. His work on this subject was largely carried out at a time when the Millennium Development Goals were the touchstone for global efforts to address the needs of the world's poorest people. Since then, not only has the global economy been affected by digitalization, financial crises, climate change, and pandemics, the discourse on poverty has also changed due to the promulgat… Show more
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