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Tightshift member apprentices and supporters at Tightshift Laboring Cooperative’s launch in December 2016 at Impact Hub DC. Adriel Fogle, Delonte Wilkins, Noreil Gorham, Donnell Sims, Keith Gaffney, Nicholas Gorham (bottom row). Photo by Samira Rashid, <a href="http://www.srashid.com/" target="_blank">SR Photography</a>.

November 6, 2017

A Worker Co-op for Returning Citizens

J. Gabriel Ware

October 27, 2017

Paths to Just Recovery

The Laura Flanders Show

October 16, 2017

Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives

Nithin Coca

September 1, 2017

Cooperative Care: Empowered Caregiving

Direct Care Alliance

Photo from <a href="http://www.kathleenmcgwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/newsletter_possibilitiesofrelationships.pdf" target="_blank">Cooperative Notes</a>.

August 28, 2017

Cooperative Care and Waushara County

Kathleen McGwin

Photo via <a href="http://communitybuilderscooperative.com/worker.htm" target="_blank">Community Builders Cooperative</a>.

March 13, 2017

Democratic Values and Accountability

GEO Collective

November 11, 2016

The Best Place to Work

Local Enterprise Assistance Fund

September 12, 2016

The Way of Water

Betsy Damon

March 25, 2016

BIOME: Operationalizing the Cooperative and Solidarity Economy

Fair Trade Hellas TV

January 22, 2016

Helping Each Other

The Laura Flanders Show

January 6, 2016

Filipina Trafficking Survivors Launch a Co-op

Abigail Savitch-Lew

Detroit Industry Mural by Deigo Rivera. Photo by flickr user ashleystreet. CC BY 2.0

July 8, 2015

Building the New Detroit

Gloria Lowe

Amalurra Ecovillage. Photo via rie.ecovillage.org

May 13, 2015

Ecovillage Economy Tour: Conclusion

Matthew Slater

Janvieve, Alexandra, and Maricruz; Ginger Moon Cooperative

August 1, 2014

Cooperative Empowerment

Apple Eco Cleaning via workersjustice.org

July 25, 2014

Against the Odds

June 3, 2014

Seizing the Moment

Hilary Abell

online at http://inwardoutward.org/the-church-of-the-saviour/churches/

March 10, 2014

Church as Intentional Solidarity Community

Tim Kumfer

Mike Little

Kayla McClurg

Michael Johnson

November 23, 2011

More Low-Wage Workers Become Their Own Bosses

August 14, 2010

Are worker co-ops making a difference? an interview

May 24, 2010

Sidebar: Worker Ownership, Coming of Age and Out of the Shallows

April 21, 2010

Graduating Green Dreams: Green Worker Cooperative Academy Is Helping Worker Co-ops Flourish in the South Bronx

April 20, 2010

Cooperative Home Care Associates: Participation with 1600 Employees

May 18, 2009

Cooperative Replication at WAGES

January 22, 2009

From Rangi-Changi to Wabi Sabi: Supporting the Development of a Worker Cooperative in an Urban Immigrant Community