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The 2012 International Summit of Cooperatives has announced some of the speakers that will present their vision and share expertise at the Summit, taking place Oct. 8-11, 2012, in Quebec City and Lévis, Canada. Among the speakers announced thus far...

Create post Think you know what big business looks like? Think again. According to Charles Gould, Director-General of the International Cooperative Association, cooperatives are poised to be the fastest growing business...

From the iVLG blog: Today’s post is going to digress from discussing the standard business model and introduce you to a different form of running a business: the worker cooperative. These organizations come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Below...

From isthmus.com Protesters flood the street, chants and song punctuated by drumming and the low, steady honk of a tuba. Sign after sign decries the attack against nurses, teachers and sanitation workers; others demand a living wage in bold letters...

Gary Hansen was a professor of economics, and of management and human resources at Utah State University, and co-author of Putting Democracy to Work: a practical guide for starting and managing worker-owned businesses, and of Steps to Starting a...

Another great article is up on the blog of Shift Change, a documentary film in progress telling the little known stories of employee owned businesses that compete successfully in today’s economy while providing secure, dignified jobs in democratic...

The National Cooperative Development Act has been introduced into the US Congress, which could inject $25 million into support cooperatives across the country. Introduced by Congressman Chaka Fattah, the Democratic representative for...

Congressman Chaka Fattah introduced the National Cooperative Development Act along with three other supporters from the House. The Democratic representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd district, Congressman Fattah is Congressional leader for...

Call for Papers – Special Issue of Organization Deadline 28th February 2013 Worker' Cooperatives as an organizational alternative: Challenges, achievements and promise in organizational governance and ownership Guest Editors Iñaki Santa Cruz....

For over sixteen years, a nonprofit called Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security has incubated and supported worker cooperatives to advance a vision of economic empowerment and opportunity for immigrant women. Today, the four worker-owned...

At the launch of the International Year of Co-operatives on October 31st, the United Nations issued a document outlining what a co-operative is. What are cooperatives?

Immanuel Ness reports, via the Luxembburg Gesellschaftsanalyse und Linke Praxiz, on the 2011 Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. "The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (ECWD) held its biannual conference in Baltimore, Maryland from...