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Home Work (cleaning, personal care, etc.)

March 1, 2023

Opportunities for Innovation: Home Care Worker Cooperatives

We are in the midst of a labor force crisis in the supply of direct service workers. The home care industry experiences a 67% average annual turnover in workers. The number of workers needed to provide home care and respite is going to escalate over the next 2 decades, exacerbating the crisis. The shortage is already acute in rural areas, and worsening in urban and suburban areas as well. An emerging solution is developing across the country through Home Care worker cooperatives.

June 20, 2022

Home Care Workers' Co-operative & Federated Care Co-op

Conversations with a member of a home care worker co-op, and the co-author of a paper laying out possibilities for a federation structure for care sector cooperatives.

June 3, 2021

Bringing Dignity to Caregiving

The home care crisis isn’t new, but it is receiving renewed attention. In several communities across the country, home care workers have come together to form worker cooperatives.

May 7, 2020

The Up & Go Story

A short film about the Up & Go cooperative home-cleaning app that is co-owned by three worker co-ops in New York City.