Economic Justice

In this Solidarity Chicago session, you will learn historical and contemporary examples of how our communities have employed rotating savings and credit associations, peer-to-peer lending, and other creative methods of harnessing capital.

The alternative weekly newspaper in Akron, Ohio is converting to a reader-owned cooperative.

Mutual aid mobile apothecaries are taking off as a model for providing health services to people who may not have access otherwise.

In this chapter Razeto uses the analysis of solidarity economy developed to this point to make sense of the family as an economic unit and form of collective organization, and understand the roles of women as its main protagonists. The disintegration of the traditional family under industrial capitalism, with the rise of wage labor outside the home, the erosion of domestic and community economic activity, the creation of the nuclear family, and the concomitant changes in gender roles and the division of labor are shown to have aggravated inequality and damaged core relations of human solidarity.

Melanie Conn talks about her life in the Canadian co-op movement.

The Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives has set up a revolving loan fund for their members.