Worker Cooperatives

A survey for cooperators, reflecting on the worker cooperative movement on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives.

Cooperative development is the most important social change work that a person can do.

Chuck Bell interviews Delia Marx of Westchester Cooperative Network about the organization's work to promote the development of worker-owned cooperatives in Westchester, County, NY

Luis Razeto closes out his theoretical analysis of equilibrium in cooperative enterprises with a consideration of equilibrium in the “new model” worker cooperatives he proposes. Not only do workers’ enterprises of this type overcome, in theory, the limitations to growth and even tendencies to decline argued to be inherent to community enterprises and traditional cooperatives, they turn out to be superior to capitalist firms in terms of efficiency and innovation, operating in ways that more closely approach “perfect competition.”

The surging demand for mental health services since the start of the pandemic has drawn attention to the issue of therapist burnout. Rhizome Therapy Cooperative has a solution.

In Chapter 10, the author continues the presentation of a mathematical model of equilibrium in cooperative enterprises originally developed by economist and management consultant Ignacio Larraechea.

The music industry doesn’t have to be exploitative. What if artists owned the platforms we depend on? What if musicians shared resources, power, and profits—together?

In his From Capital to Commons, Hannes Gerhardt introduces us to an exploration of a world beyond capitalism.

 The ‘empresas recuperadas' or worker-recovered enterprise movement in Argentina emerged as a response to the country's sovereign debt crisis of 2001, with workers fighting for their right to run abandoned factories. Central to the movement is an ethos of solidarity, with worker-owned enterprises based on horizontal authority, collective decision-making and shared returns from the business.

They ride like the pro cyclists you see on TV, logging long hard miles, day in and out, but you won’t see them at the Tour De France. Instead, they tow 8-foot trailers stacked with over 300 pounds of trash through the streets, 365 days a year.