Articles in Producer or Worker

Fair Trade Princeton declared in the end of December as the 26th Fair Trade Town in the U.S. and 5th in New Jersey. That makes New Jersey back on top with the most declared towns of any state. Camila Tellez, then only 14, of Princeton Township...

From the National Center for Employee Ownership: Many smaller companies want to share ownership with employees but find the legal costs and complexities of various common plans daunting. For owners wanting to sell to employees, an employee stock...

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-...

In a recent report to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development. The report, which illustrates the contributions of all cooperatives to the...

Fairtrade International (FLO), the product certification system associated with around 90% of all Fair Trade products sold annually around the world, released its 2010 data for sales by consumer country and by product sector. While globally sales...

A former Starbucks barista has organized an online petition, already signed by over 17,000 people, asking Starbucks to make Fair Trade coffee readily available in its U.S. stores. The petition states:“In the UK, 100% of coffee and espresso...

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...

Today, a conference about worker cooperatives has started in Quebec, it will last until October 15th 2011. This event is split into two parts. The title of the first conference is ‘Business Succession and Employee Ownership Conference', which takes...

Last week a few of us from Equal Exchange traveled to El Salvador to attend the CLAC’s First International Gathering of the Small Producers’ Symbol (SPP), an historic event which marks the first Fair Trade initiative developed by small farmer...