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The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing invites nominations for the 2027 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize. Books that have been published between 2023 and 2026 are eligible for nomination. Authors are welcome 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 or obtained as part of the nomination process. 

The 2027 prize will be awarded in January 2027. The final awardee(s) will receive a cash prize and be asked to give a presentation about their book at an Institute conference.

Please submit your nomination(s) via this link by Monday, September 19, 2026, at 11:59pm. 

This is our recommended method for submitting nominations. If you prefer, you may instead email your nomination to BOTH Bethany Dennis (bethany.dennis@rutgers.edu) and Douglas Kruse (dkruse@smlr.rutgers.edu) by that date.

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 Joyce Rothschild, and William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte.