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With an unprecedented 20+ new start-up home care cooperatives under development across the country, the home care cooperative sector has reached a tipping point. In this session learn from young co-ops about their reflections on the start-up experience, including what they wish they had known before, the surprises they encountered along the way, and their recommendations and tips for future start-ups.

Though the involvement of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) with worker co-ops was never intentional – it has been evolutionary.

A presentation from the 2021 National Home Care Cooperative Conference.

In this chapter Razeto uses the analysis of solidarity economy developed to this point to make sense of the family as an economic unit and form of collective organization, and understand the roles of women as its main protagonists. The disintegration of the traditional family under industrial capitalism, with the rise of wage labor outside the home, the erosion of domestic and community economic activity, the creation of the nuclear family, and the concomitant changes in gender roles and the division of labor are shown to have aggravated inequality and damaged core relations of human solidarity.

New Yorkers discuss the importance of economic democracy.

The program for cooperative housing offered here is one way to provide a partial answer to the crisis in which we now find ourselves.

These WhatsApp groups changed my life overnight. I went from struggling to find something to eat and a way to get around to relaxing into the support provided by the care of an Excel sheet.

Mutual aid mobile apothecaries are taking off as a model for providing health services to people who may not have access otherwise.