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23 May '13

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United States Co-operative Leaders share success stories with White House officials
One hundred and fifty co-operative leaders from across America will be meeting with top policy...
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Global NewsA Manifesto for Economic Democracy

A manifesto by Costas Panayotakis, Michael McCabe, Jan Rehmann, Sohnya Sayres, David Van Arsdale, and Richard D. Wolff.  When workforce and residential ...

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Global NewsTwo Presentations on Principles and Practices of Worker Cooperatives

From the archives of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, two 2009 slide presentations. from ICA Group president Newell Lessell and from and Erbin Crowell (then of the ...

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United StatesDemocratic Worker Cooperatives: An Organizational Strategy Reconsidered for the 21st Century

Professor John Lawrence, a member of the Grassroots Economic Organizing collective, writes in Baltimore's Indypendent Reader in 2007.  During the industrial revolution in ...

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Global NewsProfessor Gary Hansen on Cooperatives, ESOPS, and Worker Ownership

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 ...

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Global NewsHaryana: Recovery of cooperative loans

Haryana contemplates introducing a new system for recovery of cooperative loan , Cooperation  Minister Satpal Sangwan said today in Chandigarh. The Cooperative banks excelling in the recovery of loans will be rewarded, Mr Sangwan said after laying the foundation-stone of a building of the Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank in Bhiwani in Haryana. The interest relief scheme for those who repay their loans regularly has been extended up to March 31, 2015, the minister ...

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United StatesWorker Coopertives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States

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 ...

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IndiaCoop movement can solve rural problems: Kalam

India needs to focus on rapid development of villages by providing   urban amenities in rural areas to become a developed nation by 2020, former President A P J Abdul Kalam said in here today in the capital while addressing the second global agri-business incubation conference. Small land holdings hamper farm growth in India and this problem can be remedied through the cooperative movement. The latter can help in mechanization of farms and marketing of agro-products, Dr. Kalam added. The ...

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Global NewsStumptown Printers Worker Cooperative, Portland, Oregon

"Stumptown Printers is a worker cooperative. A worker cooperative is a type of business structure that allows all members to become equal partners and to have an equal say in all ...

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Global NewsCooperation Texas Relaunches Cooperative Business Institute

The Cooperative Business Institute (CBI) is a comprehensive training program designed to equip participants with the skills and resources needed to establish and manage a ...

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Global NewsThe Mondragon cooperatives – valued workers instead of shareholder value

Economists often have a stunning lack of knowledge about the kaleidoscope of different kinds of companies which exist. The neo-liberal, financially focused, manager based, ...

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