Cooperatives


Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy: Helping People Build Cooperatives, Social Enterprise, and Local Sustainable Economies
Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex
Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy: Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below
Building The New Economy: Distributive Capitalism
Happiness, Democracy, and the Cooperative Movement: The Radical Utilitarianism of William Thompson (New Political Science)
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change (Culture Of The Land)
Building Co-operative Power: Stories and Strategies from Worker Co-operatives in the Connecticut River Valley
Anarchism and Ecological Economics: A Transformative Approach to a Sustainable Future
Transformative Ecological Economics: Process Philosophy, Ideology and Utopia (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics Book 45)
Integral Ecology and Sustainable Business (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, 26)
Management, Business, Anarchism (Ephemera Vol. 14, No. 4)
Commonist Tendencies: Mutual Aid Beyond Communism
Socialists have advocated numerous ways of democratizing the economy, from setting up worker cooperatives to nationalizing major industries... At the core of economic democracy is the notion that control should not be vested in a small group of people, but in the people who do the labor. Managers and owners shouldn't decide what the workers have to do, the workers should decide what managers have to do (or if they need managers at all). And they should own the workplaces themselves. ...more
Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist

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