The Evergreen Cooperatives
A new model of economic development
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posted Oct 29, 2009
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Interested? Read more about Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland’s Worker-Owned Boom.
The Evergreen Cooperatives—a network of worker owned cooperatives in Cleveland—strive to include people in the creation of jobs and access to wealth who would otherwise be excluded. It goes way beyond just putting people back into a job. After six months, all employees of Cleveland's evergreen cooperatives start contributing to their ownership fund, and the businesses are driven by stakeholders but by the worker/owners.
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Mondragon: What relevance for US Cooperative development?
You may be interested in a brief analysis of Mondragon and its relationship to US Co-op development. Given the recent announcement of collaboration between the US Steelworkers and Mondragon, this essay is timely. It can be found here:
http://jasecon.wik.is/Analy[…]_cooperative_development%3f
-bernard marszalek