Skip to main content

Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

Feminism & Gender Justice

Image
March 14, 2024

An Interview with Ukraine's ReSew Coop

Summary

ReSew sewing cooperative – Швейний Кооператив (Chveïniï kooperativ), exists politically and ecologically without bosses or subordinates and is united by the love of their work-sewing.

Image
January 17, 2023

Rojava-U.S. Co-op Exchange

Summary

This is the 10 December 2022 phone bank and exchange between Americans and Rojava cooperator Kraker.

Image
August 22, 2022

How the Ghana Susu System Helps the African Diaspora

Authors
Summary

Canadian members of the African diaspora make use of traditional forms of group savings, known as susu, to overcome financial and cultural exclusion in the mainstream system. 

Image
January 20, 2022

Rwanda's Cooperatives of Trust

Summary

How cooperatives have helped rebuild the infrastructure and trust of Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.

Image
September 9, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

Summary

In this chapter Razeto uses the analysis of solidarity economy developed to this point to make sense of the family as an economic unit and form of collective organization, and understand the roles of women as its main protagonists. The disintegration of the traditional family under industrial capitalism, with the rise of wage labor outside the home, the erosion of domestic and community economic activity, the creation of the nuclear family, and the concomitant changes in gender roles and the division of labor are shown to have aggravated inequality and damaged core relations of human solidarity.

Image
May 30, 2019

Black Women Teachers and Youth

Summary

Why Black women teachers are especially well-suited for teaching life skills.