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Manufacturing

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. 

January 3, 2022

Workers' Self-Management at Vio.Me

An interview with a worker-owner at the Vio.Me worker-occupied factory in Greece.

October 28, 2021

A Failure of Cooperative Governance

Professor Imanol Basterretxea discusses some of the governance failures that helped lead to the collapse of the Mondragon cooperative Fagor Electrodoméstico.

May 17, 2021

A Tight-Knit Worker Co-op

Michael Johnson interviews Gail Haines about life and work at the Green Mountain Spinnery.