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A survey for cooperators, reflecting on the worker cooperative movement on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives.

Cooperative development is the most important social change work that a person can do.

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard talks about her research into the history of African-American co-ops.

In this chapter the author proposes the creation of four intercooperative bodies: an exchange for cooperative shares, a labor exchange, a financial entity, and a research and development arm.

The new approach that Razeto proposes here is made up not through federation of cooperative businesses but association of individuals in small groups or base communities. This is his movement-building perspective: cooperative organizing from the grassroots, with a clear distinction drawn between representational and operational functions.

In this chapter, we emerge from the microeconomic analysis of equilibrium in the cooperative firm into a scene peopled with “extra-economic” figures like ethics, society, and politics.

Luis Razeto closes out his theoretical analysis of equilibrium in cooperative enterprises with a consideration of equilibrium in the “new model” worker cooperatives he proposes. Not only do workers’ enterprises of this type overcome, in theory, the limitations to growth and even tendencies to decline argued to be inherent to community enterprises and traditional cooperatives, they turn out to be superior to capitalist firms in terms of efficiency and innovation, operating in ways that more closely approach “perfect competition.”

The surging demand for mental health services since the start of the pandemic has drawn attention to the issue of therapist burnout. Rhizome Therapy Cooperative has a solution.

In Chapter 10, the author continues the presentation of a mathematical model of equilibrium in cooperative enterprises originally developed by economist and management consultant Ignacio Larraechea.

In his From Capital to Commons, Hannes Gerhardt introduces us to an exploration of a world beyond capitalism.