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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.

Mari Nishitani discusses her cooperative research trip to two villages in rural Nepal to visit women's cooperatives, on NGO led and one a grassroots effort led by Dalit women. 

In the literature on cooperatives, the clearest and most direct challenge to polarization was articulated in a book published in 1939 by James P. Warbasse, Cooperation as a Way of Peace. He discusses how wars throughout history were caused by extreme economic inequality and resulting political divisiveness.

In this chapter, Razeto offers an analysis of equilibrium specific to two types of popular economic organization: community enterprises and subsistence collectives. 

I want to emphasize the urgent need to reimagine the relationship between NGOs and cooperatives. Instead of NGOs or funders defining projects based on their own interests, support and resources should be offered at the community’s request.

The Local Multiplier Effect (LME) is a very valuable, hidden feature of our economies. The term refers to how many times dollars are recirculated within a local economy before leaving through the purchase of an import.

An interview with Andy Bowling of comp.coop and Co-op Cincy.

This timeline presentation goes over the highlights of 20+ years of worker cooperativism in the United States.