Worker Cooperatives
Sowing Seeds of Farm Co-op In Detroit
by John Gallagher for Common Dreams
The Mo' Green Town proposal by New York City activist Majora Carter just might hit the sweet spot in Detroit urban agriculture.
Carter visited Detroit recently to talk up her plan to create a worker-owned urban agriculture cooperative venture. By pooling the efforts of numerous small growers in Detroit, it would attempt to grow big enough to generate real profits and a return for investors. But it would be run by local community growers themselves.
Austin: A New Cooperative Development Center
Third Coast Workers Cooperative (TCWC) is an new cooperative development center in Austin that works with low-income communities to help them produce their own environmentally friendly, worker-owned businesses.
Equal Exchange creating capital for new co-ops
The Case for Worker Co-ops
A Sampling of News and Opinion Regarding the Deal Between Mondragon and the United Steelworkers
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Regional Alliance of Worker Co-ops to Publish a Movement Book
Tuesday November 3 marked a milestone for the book project of the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (VAWC). Food for Thought Books, a 33-year collective and member of VAWC, hosted an advance book sale for CO-OP VALLEY! THE WORKER COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY. They organized the event to help finance the writing and publishing of the book.
Our purpose in publishing this book is three-fold: Workers Consider Elder-Care Co-op in Wisconsin
Evergreen: Can "Anchor Institutions" Help Revitalize Declining Neighborhoods by Buying from Local Cooperatives?
by Jacquelyn Yates, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University
Storytelling for Childcare Advocacy: Childspace Alive and Well After 21 Years!
By Christina A. Clamp, Director, Center for Cooperatives and Community Economic Development, and Professor, School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University
Mandela Foods Cooperative, opened June 6, West Oakland
West Oakland welcomes co-op's healthy foods
from Carolyn Said of the San Francisco Chronicle
Eight local residents are worker-owners who make all the store's business decisions and perform all its functions - including cashiering, stocking shelves, cleaning, taking inventory and ordering.
