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February 13, 2014

A Call to Develop a Worker Cooperative Sector in New York City

On Thursday, January 30, 2014, the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), a 90 year old nonprofit with the mission to “strengthen human service organizations and advocate for just public policies,” hosted a standing-room only conference entitled “Worker Cooperatives: Jobs for New York City’s Future.”

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June 23, 2014

Leveling the Playing Field for Worker Cooperatives

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October 23, 2017

Overcoming our Americanness

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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. 

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August 31, 2015

A New Journey with New Allies

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February 6, 2020

How Cooperatives Build a Better World

How cooperatives build a better world.

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May 29, 2017

Reflections on a Visit to Cuba’s Urban Cooperatives

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April 25, 2016

The Commons Collaborative Economy Explodes in Barcelona

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July 11, 2016

The Great Transition Experiment

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December 13, 2007

The World Social Forum At A Crossroads

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April 7, 2022

The Power of Worker Co-ops on Workers' Lives

Joining Rebecca Kemble to explain worker co-ops is MadWorC Coordinator Rek Kwawer and The Real News Network reporter Jaisal Noor. In the hour they explore how cooperatives work across the country and dive deep into worker exploitation.

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December 27, 2016

What We Need is Some Culture: Part 1

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February 1, 2024

Commons and Commoning: A Progressive Vision of a Good Society

I delivered the following remarks last week at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, in Oxford, England, on January 5, 2024. It was part of a session in the Oxford Town Hall with the noted British activist-scholar-commoner Guy Standing, entitled, "Commons and Commoning: A Progressive Vision of a Good Society." 

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An Internet of ownership: democratic design for the online economy

by Nathan Schneider

September 7, 2016

 

Hammer preparing to pound in a screw.
January 23, 2024

Doubts About "DAO Tooling"

DAO tooling is a poor fit for co-ops (and everyone else too).

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December 13, 2007

Cooperativization As Alternative to Globalizing Capitalism

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October 20, 2012

Lessons for Building a Co-operative Movement

June 2, 2017

Finally Cuba!

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