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- Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
- A Big Victory for Labor in Mexico
How Mexican Workers Won Ownership of a Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Collective ownership of a factory in Mexico.
- Building Economic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
- Canadian Co-operative Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
The Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) is a national association for co-operatives in Canada, representing more than nine million co-operative and credit union members from over 2,000 organizations. CCA members come from many sectors of the economy, including finance, insurance, agri-food and supply, wholesale and retail, housing, health and the service sector. In addition to its activities in Canada, CCA works to reduce poverty in more than 20 developing countries through its international development program.
- Collectives in Spain
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1945
A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
- Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
An account of the collectives set up in Spain during the struggle against Franco.
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Cooperation at Work
The Mondragon Experience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A guide to work co-operatives, based on the experience of the Mondragon group of co-operatives in Spain.
- May Day: workers of the world unite and take over -- their factories
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The co-operative movement is giving employees the chance to rebuild shuttered livelihoods.
- The Need for Alternative Employment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
- No Bosses Here: A Manual On Working Collectively
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
An overview of how to organize and operate a working collective. Includes discussions of decision making, meetings, common interpersonal problems as well as practical concerns such as finances and bookkeeping. Written in a personal, friendly style and draws on the experience of many collective members.
- No Bosses Here!
A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
- Ours to Hack and To Own
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision For the Future Of Work and A Fairer Internet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.
- Peter Maurin's Vision for the Catholic Worker, an Idea Whose Time has Come
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Today it seems obvious that a return to the land, to a proper relationship with creation and to meaningful, productive work is integral to the aims of the Catholic Worker movement. For much of its history, however, since its beginning in 1933, this aspect of its founder's original intentions was relegated to the margins of an already marginal movement.
- A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Co-operative Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: the Canadian Co-operative Association.
- Starting a Worker Co-operative
An Introduction
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Starting A Worker Co-operative: An Introduction
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
- Worker Co-operatives
An Introduction
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
- Worker Co-operatives
Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
An introduction to the principles and practical considerations of forming worker co-operatives.
- Worker Cooperatives in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
- Worker Cooperatives and Revolution
History and Possibilities in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Wright believes that the 'solidarity economy', fits within a Marxist understanding of what is needed to bring about a grassroots transformation of the economy.
- You can't win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
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