Mike Cooley

Irish Engineer, Trade Union Leader, Workplace Activist
1981 Right Livelihood Award Winner

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birthplace: Tuam, Ireland

Mike Cooley received the 1981 Right Livelihood Award for his visionary efforts in promoting the theory and practice of "work" as something that should be human-centered and helping to create a better world. His International Institute for Advanced Research into Human Centred Systems examines technologies that are being used to harm society and proposes alternative uses for those technologies that help make the world a better place.

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