Gar Alperovitz’s film points to worker-owned cooperatives as a growing alternative to traditional capitalism and socialism.
Cooperatives
When their boss tried to fire them, the workers of Republic Windows and Doors occupied the factory. Now they own it as a cooperative.
In their new film, Shift Change, filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin take viewers on a worldwind tour of the cooperative economy.
Why support the co-ops in your community? The benefits might be further-reaching than you think.
How cooperatives are leading the way to empowered workers and healthy communities.
Co-ops—just like people—can get more done together than anyone can do alone. They come in many forms, and are more common than you might imagine.
Back in the ’60s, Frances Moore Lappé realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
Cooperative financing and community land trusts keep rents affordable and homeownership within reach.
When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
When we share as much stuff as possible, we walk more lightly on the earth and often improve our quality of life.
Mondragón Cooperative Corporation: Look who makes the profits.
NAFTA was sold as a win-win. After 14 years of losing, Mexican farmers are making their own trade rules—fair ones.
7 of the best current models for changing who owns, controls and benefits from business. Profits can flow to workers, consumers or the community - not just outside investors. And these businesses succeed.
The boom of cooperatives in Venezuela is promoting employment and social justice at a grassroots level.
A Jewish Ugandan coffee farmer partners with Christian and Muslim neighbors to produce jobs, understanding, and a great coffee. Thanksgivingcoffee.com
Japanese families are getting smaller while the ranks of the aged are growing. A co-operative has stepped into this vacuum, connecting thousands of elders who have something to give and something to receive.
A small cheese shop in Berkeley has become a
community hub and a thriving model of worker
ownership.
The suicide economy is all too ready to cast off used material, disadvantaged people, and troubled neighborhoods. These living economy entrepreneurs are turning throwaways into gold.
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