Worker Cooperatives

Worker Cooperatives

Resources

 * Cooperative Development Institute see basic information on coops
 * California Center for Cooperative Development
 * How to set up a Workers Co-op by Radical Routes (Catalyst Collective)
 * Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, "Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex" (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, 1991).
 * E. G. Nadeau and David J. Thompson, "Cooperation Works!: How People Are Using Cooperative Action to Rebuild Communities and Revitalize the Economy" (Lone Oak Press, 1997).
 * Frank Adams, and Gary Hansen Putting Democracy To Work: A Practical Guide for Starting and Managing Worker-Owned Businesses (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc, San Francisco, 1993).
 * Whyte, W. F., Whyte, K. K. (1991) Making Mondragon, New York: ILR Press/Itchaca.
 * T.M. Thomas Isaac, Richard W. Franke, and Pyaralal Raghavan, "Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative. The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi," Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
 * Ian MacPherson, "Co-operative Studies in Australia and Beyond", Labour History, November 2006.
 * John Curl, For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America (PM Press, 2009).
 * John Curl, History of Collectivity in the Bay Area, (Homeward Press, 1982, with contributions from Judy Berg, Allen Cohen, and Morris Older)

Criticism

 * Sharryn Kasmir, The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town (State University of New York Press, 1996). ("argues that coops have fostered management-labor relations that undermine working class identity and labor unions")
 * Louis Proyect, "The Myth of Mondragon", The Unrepentant Marxist, December 6, 2009.

Related Sourcewatch

 * Alternatives to Capitalism