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Worker Cooperatives

Businesses that are owned and democratically controlled by their workers/employees (called "worker-owners").

August 19, 2024

Back to Basics: Aligning Our National Organizations with Co-op Principles

We need our national and international organizations to join us. I call on others to participate in building the movement while reframing and redirecting the Federation to become a member-controlled and -focused organization once again.

October 3, 2016

A Cooperative Manifesto

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

April 20, 2026

GEO Returns to Print!

GEO is returning to print after nearly two decades. Here's why we're doing it.

April 16, 2026

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 20

What appears to be a proof of the economic viability of the cooperative enterprise, turns out to be an argument for the potential of cooperativism, as part of a larger movement of movements, to constitute a force capable of overcoming the crisis of the State by re-founding political democracy on new, distributed and democratic foundations.

April 9, 2026

Collaboration and Mutual Care

For women such as Cristina Vilanculos, 40, a mother of three and a Real Reciclagem cooperative member since 2024, the cooperative model represents a way to escape extreme poverty when opportunities are scarce.

April 6, 2026

Creative Worker Co-ops

Ever dreamed about starting your own business with like-minded creators? A worker cooperative is a business that is owned and controlled by its workers. It is an underused model in the cultural industry that channels the creative power and freedom of the workers to build a world grounded in solidarity. Join us in this discussion on how Creative Workers Cooperatives function and how you can make one too! 

March 12, 2026

Building Community with the Gift of Plumbing

Josh talks to Cristobal, Wren, and Dayle, three of the people behind People's Plumbing, a worker cooperative operating on the Gift Economy model in Cleveland, OH.

March 9, 2026

Remembering Len Krimerman

Len Krimerman, co-founder of Grassroots Economic Organizing, as well as many other things, passed away this last December. A beloved and hard-working comrade, he will be greatly missed by those he leaves behind.

March 5, 2026

The Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society

Today, the ULCCS is Asia’s largest workers’ cooperative, and it was ranked second in the 2021 World Cooperative Monitor list of industry and utilities cooperatives.