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Hell Gate (website)
''Hell Gate NYC'' is an online worker-owned publication focused on local New York City news. The publication is named after the Hell Gate Bridge, due to the bridge's reputation for tenacity. ''Hell Gate'' covers a wide range of topics that include, but are not limited to, political corruption, local street performers, and strange subway advertisements. History The founders of ''Hell Gate'', Nick Pinto, Esther Wang, Christopher Robbins, Max Rivlin-Nadler, and Sydney Pereira, began developing the idea for the publication in 2021. Many of them were former coworkers at local publications such as the '' Village Voice, The New York Times,'' and ''Gothamist,'' as well as non-NYC publications such as '' Jezebel'' and ''The Intercept''. Pinto, Robbins, and Rivin-Nadler had all faced job instability as journalists due to companies mismanaging resources, lacking funding, and cutting budgets. In January 2022, they pitched the idea of ''Hell Gate'' to fifty local journalists, and recruit ...
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A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and Workers' self-management, self-managed by its workers. This control may mean a firm where every worker-owner participates in decision-making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one in which management is elected by every worker-owner who each have one vote. History Worker cooperatives rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution as part of the labour movement. As employment moved to industrial areas and job sectors declined, workers began organizing and controlling businesses for themselves. Worker cooperatives were originally sparked by "critical reaction to industrial capitalism and the excesses of the industrial revolution." Some worker cooperatives were designed to "cope with the evils of unbridled capitalism and the insecurities of wage labor". The philosophy that underpinned the cooperative movement stemmed from the socialism, socialist writings of thinkers including Robert Owen and Charles Fourier. Robert Owen ...
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