When it comes to collective leadership, simply having the willingness to work in this way is not always enough, and trying to ensure everyone is heard without systems and structures to support this aim can become messy and unworkable.
A growing number of co-ops are exploring how the governance system of sociocracy can help them to ensure those involved have a say while still getting things done.
The topic of recovered enterprise has gained recent attention internationally, especially after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 threatened small and medium businesses across the planet.
The sudden, illegal, drastic dismantling of USAID — and other recent aid cuts from countries including France, the Netherlands and the U.K. — is a clear demonstration of some of the problems with that model. Depending on governments, it turns out, is risky — particularly when they feel able to break existing commitments with impunity.
In a landmark development for India’s cooperative movement, the Lok Sabha passed the Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill 2025, establishing the country’s first university dedicated solely to cooperative education, innovation, and research. Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah addressed the House during the discussion, emphasizing the revolutionary impact this institution will have on rural development, self-employment, and the cooperative ecosystem at large.
The majority of undocumented migrants arriving in Spain end up working as farm labourers, scrap dealers or street vendors.
“None of these are easy,” says Lamine Sarr, a former street vendor, who co-founded the Barcelona Street Vendors’ Popular Union (Sindicato Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes) to support migrants in 2015.
GENEVA (ILO News) - On March 12, the ILO launched two Technical Working Groups (TWG) on statistics: the COPAC TWG on Measuring the Economic Contribution of Cooperatives (TWG MECC) and the UNTFSSE TWG on Social and Solidarity Economy Statistics (TWG SSES). The two technical working groups are tasked with an ambitious mission: refining and advancing cooperative statistics and laying the methodological groundwork for SSE statistics.
After a year of hard work, we're excited to release our new research report, "The Practice and Promise of Social Cooperatives", the first such comparative study of social co-ops for a U.S. audience.
Friends of the RMEOC are already somewhat familiar with this topic because of our launch of the Driver's Co-op--CO, which is in fact a social co-op, as we describe in this report.
We’re so back. A newish year and the triumphant return of Inside Baseball Week can only mean one thing: a refreshed list of subscriber goals. Let’s get to it.
The oldest baby boomers turn 79 in 2025 as attention shifts from retirement savings to elder care. That suggests that there will be ever-greater need for professional caregivers in the next decade but currently, these caregivers are in short supply.
A UCLA-led study suggests that the solution to the country’s paid caregiver shortage may come not from tech startups or corporate expansions, but from the caregivers themselves — through worker-owned cooperatives.
