- Alternative Americas
An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 A history of decentralist and co-operative alternatives in the United States, centering especially on the work of Ralph Borsodi.
- Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
- Banking on the Grass Roots
Cooperatives in global development Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Beyond Solidarity
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The American sociologist Richard Sennett has explored themes of class and social exclusion for more than 40 years. Horatio Morpurgo speaks with him about his recent book Together: The Rituals, Pleasure and Politics of Co-operation.
- 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 a Community-Controlled Economy
The Evangeline Co-operative Experience Resource Type: Book The authors use the Evangeline co-operatives as a model for community economic development.
- Building Economic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article Published: 1992 Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
- Canada's Social Economy
Co-Operatives, Non-Profits, and Other Community Enterprises Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- 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.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Co-operative Co-ownership Corporations: Legislative Proposals
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 This bound set of notes embodies the discussion paper used in a Symposium held on November 16 - 17, 1978 in Edmonton.
- The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978
- Collective Courage
A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality.
- Collective farming
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Resource Type: Article Collective farming and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which members-owners engage jointly in farming activities.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1987
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Content Magazine - Number 61
April 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Continuous Excursions
Politics and Personal Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 Colman looks at the idea that 'the personal is political'. He looks at personal life in pre-capitalist societies, the nature of politics and social relations, patriarchy and sexual relations, intimacy and personal life, indviduality and public life.
- 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.
- The Co-operative Revolution
A Graphic Novel Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 To celebrate the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives, The Co-operative Group has created a graphic novel, depicting the history, scale and diversity of co-operation.
- Co-ops, Communes and Collectives: Experiments In Social Change in the 1960's and 1970's
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 Contains case studies of alternative organizations and articles addressing issues relevant to how such organizations function. Particularly good is Jane J. Mansbridge's paper, "The Agony of Inequality." Also recommended: "Conditions for Democracy: Making Participatory Organizations Work" Joyce Rothschild-Whitt.
- A Dictionary for Housing Co-operatives
Resource Type: Article Published: 1986
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- Equal Shares
Oodi Weavers and the cooperative experience Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 The story of a community-based co-operative in Botswana.
- Explore Co-opertives and Credit Unions
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978
- For Our Common Future
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
- From Corporate Greed to Common Good
Canadian Churches and Community Economic Development Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Provides suggestions for individuals or groups who wish to sponsor and participate in community economic initiatives such as self-employment training and co-operatively-owned business.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 See also CX2933.
- Greece's solidarity movement: 'it's a whole new model - and it's working'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government.
- A Green City Program
For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
- A Guide to Co-op Alternatives
Diverting Profits from the Banks, Food Middlemen, the Landlords Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 This extensive guide to cooperative alternatives in the city of Toronto provides information about cooperative and collective ventures in areas such as education, housing, food, work and finance.
- Guide to Co-operative Alternatives
Resource Type: Book Hundreds of co-operative ventures throughout North America.
- A Guide To Cooperative Alternatives
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 Edited by "Communities, Journal of Cooperative Living," this book is a resource guide of ideas, resources, references and contacts for people interested in living and working cooperatively. Includes well-annotated section on politics, decision making, education, community organizing and much more.
- The Hoito
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Hoito Restaurant (often referred to as The Hoito by locals) is a Finnish-Canadian restaurant in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada established in 1918 and housed in the bottom floor of the historic Finnish Labour Temple. The Hoito has operated continuously on 314 Bay Street, in the historic Bay & Algoma neighbourhood since 1918.
- How to Start a Co-operative
Resource Type: Article Published: 1982 An introduction to co-operatives and act as a guide to groups interested in organizing a co-operative.
- Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
- 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 Meaning of Mondragon
Fantasties and (Possible) Realities Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 We can apply lessons learned from the extensive experience of worker self-management to encourage their unrealized radicality.
- Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A group of manufacturing, financial and retail enterprises based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest of Spain and abroad which is one of the world's largest worker cooperatives and one important example of workers' self-management.
- 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.
- New Age Business
Community Corporations That Work Resource Type: Book Published: 1986
- New Co-op fixes whats wrong with investing
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Investing should be safe, simple, and low cost. This growing Co-op helps Canadians get fair returns with reduced costs and capital loss. Investing on your own couldn't be easier.
- The New Dawn Story
Resource Type: Article Published: 1981 In the area of industrial Cape Breton Island, there exists a form of Community Development Corporation (CDC) known as New Dawn Enterprises Limited.
- The New Dawn Story
An Experiment In Economically-Based Community Development Resource Type: Article Published: 1983
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- 1978 Directory of International Communities, Cooperatives, Collectives and Communes
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- 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.
- October 11-17 is Co-op Week!
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Members of co-operatives and credit unions across Canada will celebrate Co-op Week from October 11-17, 2009, a time to reflect on the contribution the co-operative sector has made to the lives of Canadians and their communities.
- Organic Trade Association welcomes federal credit-guarantee for organic farmers in Canada
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Canadian organic sector welcomes the announcement of new federal government-guaranteed loans for farmers and farmer-coops
- Organizing in a Small Town
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2018 The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- 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.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Reclaim the power! Democratic energy must replace corporate capture
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Democratising energy would save thousands of lives a year in Britain alone -- releasing us from the clutches of corporate utilities, and building an energy commons in which we are all owners and participants, no longer captive, exploited consumers. More than that, it would be a big step forward in saving the planet.
- Rochdale
The Runaway Collage Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
- Rochdale Principles
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Rochdale Principles are a set of ideals for the operation of cooperatives. They were first set out in 1844 by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England and have formed the basis for the principles on which co-operatives around the world continue to operate.
- Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, was an early consumer co-operative, and one of the first to pay a patronage dividend, forming the basis for the modern co-operative movement. Although other co-operatives preceded them,[2] the Rochdale Pioneers' co-operative became the prototype for societies in Great Britain. The Rochdale Pioneers are most famous for designing the Rochdale Principles, a set of principles of co-operation that provide the foundation for the principles on which co-ops around the world operate to this day.
- The Role Co-operatives in Childcare
Role des cooperatives dans le secteur de la garde d'enfants Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- Social Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1908 Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
- Social Teaching Incarnate at ICI
Resource Type: Article Published: 1992 From economic grassroots organizations, Latin Americans of every creed, race and colour gather under the one ICI roof for three month periods of intensive sharing and learning. Community and society problems are examined and their causes analyzed from a Latin American perspective.
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- 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
- A study of urban communes and co-ops inToronto
MA Thesis, University of Toronto, 1973 Resource Type: Article Published: 1973
- 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.
- Towards a Decentralist Commonwealth
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 Could the basic structural concept of common ownership of society's resources for the benefit of all ever be achieved, institutionally, in ways which fostered and sustained, rather than eroded and destroyed, a cooperative democratic society?
- Valencia-Mondragon Study Tour
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989
- Why Cooperative Businesses Are Not the Answer
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The problem with the worker-owned cooperative business economic model is that this model retains one of the most important defining characteristics of the capitalist model with which we are so familiar today: production of commodities to be sold for a profit in the market place.
- Worker Co-operatives
An Introduction Resource Type: Article Published: 1985
- 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.
- Workers' Self-Management in the United States
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- You can't win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy
Resource Type: Article Published: 2021
- Zatoun
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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