Worker Cooperatives
South End Press: Independent & Collectively-Run
The Seed
Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (W. Mass and Southern VT)
Networking & Collaboration | Worker CooperativesCo-op Biodiesel In Global Context
The People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store
Searching For the Next Cooperative Principle
In 1995, the International Cooperative Alliance adopted seven cooperative principles to define and guide cooperatives throughout the world. Briefly stated, the "traditional seven" include: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for community.
A Strategy for Unions and Coops: Toward Building A Labor-Ownership Economy
Both Hands in the Soil
There is an ethical imperative to shift the balance of economic power away from corporate Capitalism and toward economies that benefit us all. Beginning with this assumption, I will explain how it is possible for unions and worker cooperatives to collaborate strategically to take market share away from absentee-owned and wage labor capitalist enterprises and place control of resources and production in the hands of communities of working people.
