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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.

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.

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.