Worker Cooperatives

Attorney Neil Helfman discusses his chapter in the Sustainable Economies Law Center's 2021 Legal Guide to Worker Cooperatives, as well as his thoughts on worker cooperatives in construction and climate-wise, green building, and the need for professionals to step up in the coop movement.

The paper includes seven case studies of interaction and collaboration between labor unions and worker-owned entities, in which unions get out their tools to apply their power and capacity toward worker ownership for expanding avenues for worker power.

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

A look back on 20 years of the recovered factories movement in Argentina.

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.

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.