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Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

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A Wired Magazine Top Tech Book of 2017

Real democracy and the Internet aren’t mutually exclusive.

Here, for the first time in one volume, are probably the most most cogent thinkers and doers relating to the cooptation of the Internet, and how we will be able to resist and reverse the process. The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.

The on-demand economy is reversing the rights and protections workers fought for centuries to win. Unusual Internet users, meanwhile, retain little keep an eye on over their personal data. Whilst promising to be the great equalizers, online platforms have continuously exacerbated social inequalities. Can the Internet be owned and governed otherwise? What if Uber drivers set up their own platform, or if a city’s residents controlled their own version of Airbnb? This book shows that another kind of Internet is imaginable―and that, in a new generation of online platforms, it is already taking shape.

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