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For decades, artisans have worked in isolation from their homes, receiving piece rates determined entirely by intermediaries. Grassroots cooperatives and fair-trade initiatives offer a possibility of ...

Worker-Owner Co-op Model Thrives at Alvarado Street Bakery Baking is a job for early-risers like Miguel Calderon. It’s before 5am and the first shift of the bagel production crew is waking up, leaving...

Support work can be isolating. Even in a team, you might find yourself working alone most days, with little time or space to reflect on how things are really going. At Equal Care, we’ve been developin...

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This article explores how union negotiations in worker-owned co-ops compare to more traditional labor negotiations. The theoretical analysis addresses possible synergies between practices traditionall...

Bookchin’s works on direct democracy and social ecology seem to directly resonate with the practices of countless contemporary social movements worldwide: from political initiatives directly or indire...

Ramsey Nassar, Gwen Pasquarello, and Andy Wallace at EMMA Technology Cooperative have spent five years as a worker-owned co-op building software and hardware for video games, theater, public installat...

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Power Tools for Artists Cooperatives for Creatives with Obvious Agency

Solidfund members have agreed to pledge £30,000 from their cash reserve to buy loan stock in Stirchley Co-op Developments. Our financial services partner ICOF (Industrial Common Ownership Fund) agreed...

Usually, cooperatives are created by people as a reaction to specific, most often local, conditions. Through their joint action individuals show collective or social agency and the conviction that the...

Dario Azzellini talks to Co-op News about his new book, which looks at workers’ self-management as a response to recurring neoliberal crises

Board Ready: A Training Series for New Co-op Directors Outstanding board leadership is a critical component of being a successful cooperative business. Great boards don’t just happen, they are built a...

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Across all conversations, participants described continually negotiating how and when aspects of their identity were disclosed, adapting to the needs of the people they supported while simultaneously ...

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In this article I will present the strongest case that I can for why cooperatives and solidarity economy organizations should avoid the use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Sun...

This thesis attempts to broaden the understanding of workplace democracy and worker cooperatives particularly focusing on ownership, participation and leadership. Four cases are reviewed: the Mondrago...

Our modern mental maps of commons are woefully inadequate, in part because we have forgotten the history of commons and its once-flourishing folk culture.

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We are Green Halcones, a social cooperative owned by formerly incarcerated individuals based in Los Angeles, California. We are working to make neighborhoods beautiful, grow healthy food, and protect ...

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Communities across the world have organized member-owned institutions, both formal and informal, to survive against corporatized financial systems. The most predominant cooperative systems across the ...

This session will explore the power of cooperatives working across three very different contexts: Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Cooperative, Cecosesola and Ventures. It will explore how the cooperative eco...

On March 2nd, 2026, cooperative educator and “recovering farmer” Emi Do and I visited Heather Pritchard at her home on Fraser Common Cooperative Farm, near Aldergrove, British Columbia. After a brief ...

In 1973, Teruko Mizushima started the Volunteer Labor Bank in Japan - the world's first time bank. This article tells the history of the Volunteer Labour Bank and looks at the legacy of Mizushima's pr...

Cooperative leaders said the initiative was introduced after recognising the potential of macadamia farming

On May 24, co-op members, leaders, staff, and sector partners from across British Columbia gathered for CHF BC’s Spring Forum 2026. Guided by the theme Community Starts Next Door: Where neighbourly connections build community, the day explored how everyday connections between neighbours create stronger, more resilient co-op communities. Through educational workshops, inspiring speakers, networking opportunities, … Continued

Ebony Gustave writes about touring several cooperatives in the Hudson Valley as part of the Cooperative Leaders & Scholars Fellowship.

I interviewed Bianca Elzenbaumer for my latest podcast of Frontiers of Commoning (Episode #75) to learn more about the group’s very different vision of development.

Aurora Coop, considered the largest meat cooperative in Brazil, estimates it would need to hire an additional

In Canada, more than half of all housing on community land trusts is cooperative housing. In the U.S., that number is less than 2%. Why?

In this study, we survey 1,214 members of Member-Owned Institutions (MOIs) in the state of Kerala, India. Kerala’s MOIs underline the value of citizen engagement and action to improve social provision...

The unique communities described in great detail in the recently published Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy are utopian in vision but thoroughly practical in their everyday functioning.

How do people and cultures survive under dictatorship?