United States

An interview with Andy Bowling of comp.coop and Co-op Cincy.

This timeline presentation goes over the highlights of 20+ years of worker cooperativism in the United States. 

Bernard Marszalek joins us to discuss the history of the Hawthorn Works and his new book: Jobs, Jive, and Joy: An Argument for the Utopian Spirit.

For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.

Bethany and Tim of the Cheeseboard Bakery and the Arizmendi Association of Co-ops talk about the model of worker co-op development they have been successfully pursuing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Residents organized a fundraiser on Feb. 22 to buy the building themselves under DC’s Tenants Opportunity to Purchase Act.

Linda Wurzbach recently retired from a successful 12-person education consultancy using an employee ownership model.

Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard is a Community Justice and Social Economic Development Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College. She is an internationally recognized and widely published political economist specializing in cooperative economics, community economic development, racial wealth inequality, solidarity economics, Black Political Economy, popular economic literacy, and community-based approaches to justice. In this broadcast, she discusses the history & importance of Black economic cooperatives.

What if the way we support artists is broken, but the answers have been with us all along? Today on Next Economy Now, we’re joined by Ethiopian-American vocalist, composer, and cultural activist Meklit Hadero to explore how migration shapes music, why the traditional music industry is collapsing, and how collective economic models could be the key to artists' survival. 

Two New York City housing co-ops debated whether to privatize.