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Frank Lindenfeld's "Cooperative Commonwealth": Building on History for a Cooperative Future

Memory moves us as surely into the realm of what shall be as it moves us back to what has been: by extracting what is indeterminately lasting from the latter, it allows the former to come to us. --Edward S. Casey1

 

Regions: 
United States
Canada
Institutions & Structures: 
Unions & Worker Organizations
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
beyond capitalism
cooperative commonwealth
cooperative economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Organized Labor
Workplace Democracy
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Linking Opposition & Alternatives
Networking & Collaboration
Strategies for Change

An Intriguing Counterpoint to the "No Bosses" meme

Valve is a Software game development company founded by an alumnus of Microsoft. Self-funded, it has about 300 employees. Its first product came together quickly and paid off handsomely. Most importantly, it has no bosses. It is entirely flat. There have been several write-ups recently about Valve in the mainstream (Capitalist) business press pointing out the "no boss" structure.

Occupy and the Solidarity Economy perspective

Solidarity Economic perspectives develop from penetrating reflection on our actual experience to find the questions we need to be asking

Labor and the Solidarity Economic perspective

We have to change the game, not simply the rules of the game.

CICOPA North America Launched

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

Regions: 
United States
Canada
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Conferences, Events & Gatherings

Cooperatives and Workers-Owned Enterprises as Transformative Strategies

Report on the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Conference, Berlin Germany, November 3-5, 2011

 

Is the time right for worker-owned enterprises to socialize or nationalize traditional businesses to create a more humane economic system?

That and other questions were debated at an international conference on cooperatives and advocates of worker self-management and control.

Visions & Models: 
beyond capitalism
cooperative economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Conferences, Events & Gatherings
Linking Opposition & Alternatives
Strategies for Change

The Italian Solidarity Economy’s Slow Revolution

(EDITOR'S NOTE: In the article below Alberto Corbino gives us a view of the Solidarity Economy movement in Italy. He will be doing a lecture tour in the US this summmer. The idea is to continue discussing the subjects he reports on in the article here at universities, colleges, and centers of solidarity economic justice movements.

Regions: 
Western Europe
Institutions & Structures: 
Fair Trade Organizations & Networks
Visions & Models: 
beyond capitalism
solidarity economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Workplace Democracy
Economic Sectors: 
Financing & Financial Services

SBA Recognizes Worker Cooperatives as Small Businesses

 

Energia in Holyoke, MA is a multi-stakeholder cooperative

(Photo courtesy of Cooperative Fund of New England)

Institutions & Structures: 
Cooperative Financial Institutions
Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
cooperative economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
Economic Sectors: 
Community Development
Financing & Financial Services
Organizational Support & Development

Unions and Building Economic Democracy

I see economic democracy at three main levels: 1) workers gaining greater control of the workplace and participating in management, 2) collectively controlling investment funds to benefit local and regional economies, and 3) democratically allocating resources through a national investment fund to achieve social goals.

Worker Ownership For the 21st Century?

The Union Co-op Model: this country’s largest industrial labor union teamed up with the world’s largest worker-cooperative to present a plan that would put people to work in labor-driven enterprises that build worker power and communities, too.

Cooperating to Replace Capitalism

SolidarityNYC has worked to "challenge the social justice movement to take up grassroots economic community development" as a way of building solidarity and concrete alternatives to capitalism.

South By Southwest: Tech Worker Co-ops

South-By-Southwest is  a huge convention that had an interesting forum on Tech-shop co-ops. The audio is available, at the linked location, for you to listen to the session.

Worker-Owners of America, Unite!

Is the NY Times getting it?
Regions: 
United States
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Cooperative Financial Institutions
ESOPs
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
cooperative economy
beyond capitalism
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Workplace Democracy
#Occupy Movement

More Low-Wage Workers Become Their Own Bosses

From California to Maine, over the last 15 years low-wage workers have steadily organized employee-owned small businesses
Regions: 
United States
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
cooperative economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
Immigrant Justice
Economic Sectors: 
Home Work (cleaning, personal care, etc.)

Get Occupied With the Co-Op Movement!

By Emily Kennedy, Huffington Post

I bet you haven't heard of the global movement that's demanding a democratic economy. The one that's unsatisfied with the corporate business model and the way banks dominate the system. The one that's been occupying the social change arena since 1844. They're the Co-Operative Movement.

Visions & Models: 
cooperative economy
beyond capitalism
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
#Occupy Movement

Resolution No. 27: Workers' Capital, Industrial Democracy and Worker Ownership

US Steelworkers pass resolution endorsing its unionized, worker-owned cooperative development activities
Regions: 
United States
Canada
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Unions & Worker Organizations
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Solidarity Economy Organizing

Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives launches public appeal

Inventive new resource turns to the public to raise funds and awareness
Institutions & Structures: 
Teacher Cooperative Schools
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
cooperative economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy

New Oakland Worker Cooperative Uses Profits to Create Jobs in Bay Area

Co-Soap Hopes Its Unique Business Model Will Spark Economic Growth and Justice.
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
cooperative economy
place-based (local) economics
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Workplace Democracy
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Networking & Collaboration
Financing
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

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