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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

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October 3, 2016

A Cooperative Manifesto

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

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May 27, 2014

Black Co-ops Were A Method of Economic Survival

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

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March 14, 2024

An Interview with Ukraine's ReSew Coop

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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.

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March 11, 2024

Bayard Rustin: The Links in Our Lives

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Bayard Rustin, who was one of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s key advisors, as well as a planner of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a leader in social movements for peace, civil rights, non-violence, and LGBTQ+ rights, is famous today for organizing the 1963 March on Washington. In those days, owing to him being gay, Rustin’s name and accomplishments were hidden from public view. It led him to be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013.

 

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January 22, 2024

Transform Finance: An Interview with Curt Lyon

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Transform Finance Executive Director Curt Lyon talks with Jim, Matt, and Josh about their work educating investors about ways to support businesses with a focus on worker empowerment.

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December 18, 2023

The Process of Consumption and the Means of Achieving Well Being

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In the previous sections we examined the processes of production and circulation, laying out the foundations of their respective general theories. We now turn to the central questions of a general theory of economic consumption.

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October 16, 2023

The Masters in Management: Co-operatives and Credit Unions Program Turns 20

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The International Centre for Co-operative Management offers management education in a multi-sectoral format that brings managers from producer, worker, and consumer co-ops and credit unions. The students learn together and share their models of co-operation. The result is a dynamic and engaging educational program that creates a unique management paradigm for the co-operative enterprise model.

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October 12, 2023

Turning Up the Cooperation with Louder Than Ten

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Rachel and Travis of Vancouver's Louder Than Ten worker cooperative talk with Josh about their business and why they decided to make the conversion to a worker co-op.

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October 9, 2023

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 8

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Chapter eight of Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy.

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September 11, 2023

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 7

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In this chapter, Luis Razeto proposes a system of proportional voting in an organizational structure in which decision-making power and participation are distributed differentially, based on member contributions, in accordance with criteria of efficiency, justice, and democratic participation.