The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing is seeking nominations for the 2025 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize.
Books that have been published between 2021 and 2024 are eligible for nomination. Authors are also encouraged to self-nominate.
The award is intended to honor a book (or edited volume) that makes a significant contribution to the advancement of economic democracy. That advancement could be to our theoretical understanding, to research, or to the real-world development of employee share ownership, workers’ cooperative ownership, profit sharing, or any newly emergent form of workers’ ownership and/or democratic governance in the economic sphere. The book must have appeared in print by an independent publisher either as a hard cover or paperback or both in these years. Books that have only appeared digitally are not eligible. Note that a book will only be considered if an approved PDF of the book is submitted as part of the nomination process.
The prize will be awarded in January, 2025. The final awardee(s) will receive a cash prize and be asked to record or give a presentation about their book at an Institute conference. Please submit your nomination(s) by September 6, 2024.
A perpetual endowment in support of the book prizes has been established at Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labor Relations. In alternate years, the book prize will honor William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte and then Joyce Rothschild.
