Worker Cooperatives

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

The 2021 USFWC Worker Co-op Awards presentation.

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

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

Camila Piñeiro discusses Cuba's new cooperative legislation.

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

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.

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

Matt Cropp of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center discusses the basics of worker cooperative structure.

Collaboration and democratic decision making is just part of how worker owned businesses, or co-ops, fared better than other companies during the pandemic. By and large they survived, even thrived, and today they’re less likely to experience the labor shortages many businesses face as the economy reopens.