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  1. Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
  2. A Big Victory for Labor in Mexico
    How Mexican Workers Won Ownership of a Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Collective ownership of a factory in Mexico.
  3. Building Economic Alternatives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
  4. Collectives in Spain
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1945
    A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
  5. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    An account of the collectives set up in Spain during the struggle against Franco.
  6. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  7. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  8. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  9. Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A guide to work co-operatives, based on the experience of the Mondragon group of co-operatives in Spain.
  10. Mondragon Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business - a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
  11. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
  12. No Bosses Here: A Manual On Working Collectively
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    An overview of how to organize and operate a working collective. Includes discussions of decision making, meetings, common interpersonal problems as well as practical concerns such as finances and bookkeeping. Written in a personal, friendly style and draws on the experience of many collective members.
  13. No Bosses Here!
    A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
  14. Ours to Hack and To Own
    The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision For the Future Of Work and A Fairer Internet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.
  15. Peter Maurin's Vision for the Catholic Worker, an Idea Whose Time has Come
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Today it seems obvious that a return to the land, to a proper relationship with creation and to meaningful, productive work is integral to the aims of the Catholic Worker movement. For much of its history, however, since its beginning in 1933, this aspect of its founder's original intentions was relegated to the margins of an already marginal movement.
  16. A Proposal to American Labor
    'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
  17. Starting a Worker Co-operative
    An Introduction
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  18. Starting A Worker Co-operative: An Introduction
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  19. A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
    Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1989
    Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
  20. Worker Co-op(s)
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Independent quarterly magazine dedicated to worker co-operatives.
  21. Worker Co-operatives
    An Introduction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
  22. Worker Co-operatives
    Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    An introduction to the principles and practical considerations of forming worker co-operatives.
  23. Worker Cooperatives in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
  24. Worker Co-operatives: An Introduction
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    Schnack and Jackson introduce worker co-operatives to a broad constituency of the unemployed, underemployed, precarious workers, community organizations, women's groups, and church members. This is a practical guide that avoids the larger policy and philosophical debates about worker co-operatives.
  25. Worker Cooperatives and Revolution
    History and Possibilities in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Wright believes that the 'solidarity economy', fits within a Marxist understanding of what is needed to bring about a grassroots transformation of the economy.
  26. You can't win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
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