ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the prospect for the adoption of different organisational forms to enable workers to enjoy greater control over their work and the opportunity to share in ownership of the enterprises. The chapter notes the option of affording gig workers the same rights to participate in existing forms of worker representation on company boards and in works councils. Most attention is afforded to the prospect of forming worker cooperatives, and this is illustrated by the example of the not-for-profit and cooperative models of rideshare businesses developed in Austin, Texas when Uber and Lyft temporarily departed the market. The chapter also explains Employee (or ‘worker’) Ownership Trusts and advocates the feasibility of this model as a means of allowing workers to share in the profits from their own labour.
