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July 21, 2022

Venezuelan Cooperatives

Dario Azzellini tells Theresa Alt about Venezuelan cooperatives.

July 18, 2022

Beyond Platform Cooperativism

Platform cooperativism is the union of technological potential with the strength of the cooperative organization. Worker-owned platforms can be laboratories, building local experiences to challenge the dominant dynamics of gig work. They can reinvent local economic circuits of production and consumption through platforms and improve working conditions while promoting mobility policies and improvements in public transportation, care services, and integration into the health system. This is both a promise and a potential of platform cooperativism.

July 14, 2022

Commoning and Changemaking

It is now abundantly clear that the world we have inherited is no longer working, And yet there are many hopeful signs of people imagining and building a different type of future.

July 11, 2022

A Roadmap For High-Trust Communities

Here's a short clip introducing Microsolidarity as a roadmap for high-trust communities.

July 7, 2022

Inclusive Recycling in Waste Picker Cooperatives in Brazil

Cooperatives were able to quickly implement COVID-19 protocols in the sorting sheds, thus achieving greater credibility with public officers and greater security for cooperative members.

July 4, 2022

Steps to Organizing a Cooperative

Margaret Bau of USDA Rural Development makes a presentation on the steps to start a cooperative.

June 30, 2022

This Southern Appalachian town uses co-ops to build new communities around old industries

In the foothills of western North Carolina, the small town of Morganton is home to a growing co-op movement that’s reinvigorating the region’s once-struggling textile and furniture manufacturing industries, and refashioning them around egalitarianism and localism. 

June 27, 2022

Unions and Co-ops: Gem City Market

A look at a multi-stakeholder cooperative with a worker-owner member class and bylaws that state neutrality toward union formation.

June 23, 2022

Resident-Owned Resilience

Residents of manufactured housing communities (MHCs) are disproportionately vulnerable to both hazards and displacement. The cooperative ownership model of resident-owned communities (ROCs) pioneered by ROC USA helps MHC residents resist displacement, but little research assesses how cooperative tenure impacts hazard vulnerability. To fill this gap, we conduct a spatial analysis of 234 ROC USA sites; analyze the co-op conversion process; and interview ROC USA staff, technical assistance providers, and resident co-op leaders.

June 20, 2022

Home Care Workers' Co-operative & Federated Care Co-op

Conversations with a member of a home care worker co-op, and the co-author of a paper laying out possibilities for a federation structure for care sector cooperatives.