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author: Nathan Schneider
title: "The New Trusts: Democratic Ownership Beyond the ESOP"
summary: A webinar on emerging explorations on trust structures—their promise and their problems
tags: [internet-of-ownership, user-trusts, events]
tags: [internet-of-ownership, events]
event-date: June 6, 2019
event-location: webinar
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The task at hand is no small one. And I realize that I’ll continue to face many ups and downs on this journey. But I’m confident that the work we’re doing, at the very least, will challenge the way larger platforms treat their contributors. I hope (if this works) that Curafied can serve as one of many examples of how the cooperative model can achieve better experiences and better economies—for everyone involved.
If you would like to reach me to learn more or to explore becoming part of this process, please contact arielle@curafied.com.
**If you would like to reach me to learn more or to explore becoming part of this process, please contact arielle@curafied.com.**

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Since [reporting on](https://www.shareable.net/blog/owning-is-the-new-sharing) an emerging interest in ownership among tech entrepreneurs in 2014 and co-organizing the first "[platform cooperativism](https://platform.coop/)" conference with Trebor Scholz at the New School in 2015, MEDLab director Nathan Schneider has been active in organizing and documenting this growing movement aiming to build an ecosystem for cooperative business in the online economy.
*Supported by fellowships from the Open Society Foundations and Rutgers University's [Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing](https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing).*
## Publications
* [The Internet of Ownership](https://ioo.coop/), a resource-sharing network that includes a directory of the platform co-op ecosystem
* Nathan Schneider and Jason Wiener, "[Exit to Co-op](/medlab/assets/exit_to_co-op.html)," concept slide deck (2017)
* Nathan Schneider, "[VirtualCoop](/medlab/assets/VirtualCoop.pdf)," concept whitepaper (2018)
* Nathan Schneider, _Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy_ (Nation Books, 2018)
* Nathan Schneider, "An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy," _The Sociological Review_ 66, no. 2 (March 2018)
* Nathan Schneider, "[An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038026118758533)," _The Sociological Review_ 66, no. 2 (March 2018)
* Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider (eds.), _Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet_ (OR Books, 2016)
## Collaborators
* [Curafied](https://curafied.com/)
* [Sarapis](https://sarapis.org/)
* [Sarapis](https://sarapis.org/)

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title: User Trusts
slug: user-trusts
summary: Strategies for restructuring online platforms based on the ideas of Louis O. Kelso
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Through employee stock-ownership plans (ESOPs), millions of Americans experience the benefits of being co-owners of their workplaces. But employment is only one kind of economic relationship that can be strengthened with co-ownership trusts. Louis Kelso, the inventor of the ESOP, also imagined other SOPs, including a consumer stock-ownership plan (CSOP). In an era when fixed employment may be in decline, perhaps the time is right to revisit the CSOP proposal.
This project explores the viability and prospects of CSOPs, especially in the emerging online economy.
*Supported by a Louis Kelso Fellowship from Rutgers University's [Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing](https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing).*