Increasing Equity in a Post-Pandemic Economy: The Potential for Growing Worker Ownership - Job Quality in Practice Webinar

The pandemic placed the economy into a sickening tailspin. The crisis has brought enormous pain. Can it also catalyze advantageous changes that expand opportunity and equity? Companies can share economic success through various models. Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), worker cooperatives, profit sharing, and forms of equity participation all present different opportunities to share that success. Employee-owned firms have also shown strong resilience through economic downturns and often use management approaches that lead to higher-quality jobs. How can these strategies help shape the economic rebuilding that is to come? How can they address the inequalities and inequities that have divided our society and help us build a more resilient economy? This discussion includes Joseph Blasi (J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University), Tomás Durán (President, Concerned Capital; Job Quality Fellow, The Aspen Institute), Alison Lingane (Co-founder, Project Equity ; Job Quality Fellow, The Aspen Institute), and moderator Joyce Klein (Director, Business Ownership Initiative, The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program).  This webinar is the sixth in our Job Quality in Practice series. The Job Quality in Practice series is designed to support practitioners across fields – including workforce development, economic development, capital deployment, policy, worker advocacy, and business – to address job quality in their work. Webinars share updates on current conditions and priorities as well as actionable tools and approaches. We also seek to highlight leading practitioners’ work and create connections across disciplines.We are grateful to Prudential Financial for its support of our Job Quality in Practice webinar series and our ongoing efforts to advance a job quality field of practice. The  Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas  to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy.  We recognize that race, gender, and place intersect with and intensify  the challenge of economic inequality and we address these dynamics by  advancing an inclusive vision of economic justice. For over 25 years,  EOP has focused on expanding individuals’ opportunities to connect to  quality work, start businesses, and build economic stability that  provides the freedom to pursue opportunity. For more information, visit  our website at as.pn/eop. Learn about new events and activities by joining our mailing list (as.pn/eopmail) and following us on social media (as.pn/eopsocial).