Worker Cooperatives

This month’s guest is Rob Callender, co-founder of Kin.coop, a platform designed to help people start and manage cooperative savings clubs. What would it look like to organise money collectively? 

An introduction to the US Cooperative Movement from CooperationWorks!

Within the framework of the Universidad Popular by Poder Emma, an industrial sewing workshop is underway. For now, they offer free classes in Spanish to the local Latino community. In the future, they plan to turn the space into a worker-owned textile cooperative that elevates the sewing trade and creates dignified jobs for the community.

This Co-op Conversation contextualizes the recent surge of unionized worker co-ops, or “union co-ops,” in the United States within the structural aims and orientations of the respective movements.

GEO is returning to print after nearly two decades. Here's why we're doing it.

What appears to be a proof of the economic viability of the cooperative enterprise, turns out to be an argument for the potential of cooperativism, as part of a larger movement of movements, to constitute a force capable of overcoming the crisis of the State by re-founding political democracy on new, distributed and democratic foundations.

A workshop of best practices for effective governance, by and for worker co-ops.

For women such as Cristina Vilanculos, 40, a mother of three and a Real Reciclagem cooperative member since 2024, the cooperative model represents a way to escape extreme poverty when opportunities are scarce.

Ever dreamed about starting your own business with like-minded creators? A worker cooperative is a business that is owned and controlled by its workers. It is an underused model in the cultural industry that channels the creative power and freedom of the workers to build a world grounded in solidarity. Join us in this discussion on how Creative Workers Cooperatives function and how you can make one too! 

Josh talks to Cristobal, Wren, and Dayle, three of the people behind People's Plumbing, a worker cooperative operating on the Gift Economy model in Cleveland, OH.