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Joel Schoening has a thorough retrospective on the demutualized business in the Oregon Historical Quarterly's Fall 2010 edition.  "Over the next twenty years, the cooperative they created faced its share of organizational and financial...

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...

Oblique Solutions NWQ offers collaborative approaches to problem solving from Bob Davis in the great Northwest.  Consulting for Co-op Development, Governance, Consensus Decision-Making & Facilitation. Hands on experience working in co-...

Equal Exchange, the largest worker-owned coffee roasting facility in the United States, is looking for a Production Assistant to join our production team.  The successful applicant will become a part of our production team which seeks to be a...

Professor John Lawrence, a member of the Grassroots Economic Organizing collective, writes in Baltimore's Indypendent Reader in 2007.  During the industrial revolution in the United States, labor organizations such as the National Trades'...

A 2010 thesis paper by Christopher Wright at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Worker cooperatives have a long and tortured history, but recently they have been advancing globally on a more stable foundation than before. In this essay I...

The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, the oldest regional worker cooperative federation in the U.S. since its founding in 1994, may be going through some structural changes because of difficulties getting member cooperatives to seat...

"In the age of unemployment, downsizing, and outsourcing, where can a poor soul find a job? Well, maybe it’s time we create our own. Self-employment is an option and can seem freeing, but it’s hard to do everything yourself and find time for a non-...

Analysis by Ben Case NEW YORK, Oct 24 (IPS) - The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has withstood political pressure, bad weather, police violence, and over a thousand arrests, and is continuing to grow in New York City a month...

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...

From John McNamara at the Workers' Paradise: If you happen to be near Quebec City this week, two exciting conferences will be taking place. The first is about business succession planning with an emphasis of selling businesses to one’s employees....

Here is a spreadsheet to show some examples of calculating patronage.  "Patronage", as you may know, is the amount of work performed as a member of a worker cooperative,  measured in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and by-...