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Worker Cooperatives

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

January 20, 2022

Rwanda's Cooperatives of Trust

How cooperatives have helped rebuild the infrastructure and trust of Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.

January 10, 2022

Lessons from Venezuela's Social Economy

Michael Lebowitz shares his perspective on the social economic models in Venezuela and Yugoslavia. Lebowitz highlights the importance of self-actualization through protagonism and how the most successful of these models focused on solidarity over self-interest.

January 3, 2022

Workers' Self-Management at Vio.Me

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

December 9, 2021

How White Electric Coffee Became a Worker Co-op

Two worker-owners from White Electric Coffee in Providence, RI describe how they converted their workplace to a worker cooperative.

December 2, 2021

Intro to Cooperative Governance and Management

An introduction to cooperative governance and management from the Sustainable Economies Law Center.

November 29, 2021

Cuba's New Cooperative Legislation

Camila Piñeiro discusses Cuba's new cooperative legislation.

November 18, 2021

What it's Like to Work in a Cooperative Kitchen

An interview with Millie Moon, a worker-owner at one of the Arizmendi Bakery in Oakland, California.

November 11, 2021

Mapping the US Solidarity City

Professor Maliha Safri discusser her research into post-capitalist economic organizing in NYC, and how people of color are forming and participating in a majority of the postcapitalist practices we studied in NYC.