Worker Co-op
Farewell to Neechi Commons
by Kaye Grant, Kenzie Love and Hazel Corcoran After spending much of the past year hoping for a solution to Neechi Commons’ challenges, it was forced to close on June 30th. Neechi Food Co-op members rallied and identified many different options to turn their operation around but, sadly, were not successful in doing this. There … Farewell to Neechi Commons
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Why cooperatives promote a dignified life of freelancers and informal workers by SMart Chile
Under the worldwide campaign, WE OWN IT for the promotion of youth cooperative entrepreneurship, cooperators all around the globe are sending us video messages. This one is about SMart Chile created to give a solid and efficient response to the growing precariousness within the workplace. A worker cooperative designed to support the administrative, financial … Why cooperatives promote a dignified life of freelancers and informal workers by SMart Chile
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1947-2017: Bruno Roelants on the past and future of CICOPA
As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of CICOPA, the Secretary General of CICOPA shares some memories and his hopes for the future of the cooperative movement.
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Working Together for a Cooperative Future
A video created in a collaborative manner that shares the experiences, challenges and motivations of young cooperators in 9 worker and social cooperatives from 9 countries worldwide. CICOPA, the international organisation of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producer’s Cooperatives and its regional organizations in Europe and Mercosur: CECOP-CICOPA Europe and CICOPA Mercosur have produced in a … Working Together for a Cooperative Future
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Archived March 20, 2020 – Be Part of Creating a Strategy to Grow Canada’s Worker Co-op Movement
by Russ Christianson Over the next few months, Dominique Bernier, Cathy Lang and I will be working with CWCF board members and staff, members of worker co-operatives and co-op developers to co-create a strategy for scaling Canada’s worker co-op movement. In addition to CWCF insiders, we will engage key opinion leaders inside and outside of … Archived March 20, 2020 – Be Part of Creating a Strategy to Grow Canada’s Worker Co-op Movement
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Worker-Owned Cooperatives in Marginalized Communities: Incompatibility and Innovation
Worker-Owned Cooperatives in Marginalized Communities: Incompatibility and Innovation By Princie Reza Supervised by Justin Podur A Major Paper submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree in Master in Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. July 2017 This paper examines the sufficiency of the worker cooperative model in addressing precarious … Worker-Owned Cooperatives in Marginalized Communities: Incompatibility and Innovation
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Worker Co-op Magazine Collection
The Worker Co-op Magazine Collection for 1980-1992 is now digitized and available for download here.
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Culture (including indigenous culture) and Social Change
This paper by Greg O’Neill discusses, among other things, the commonalities between Inuit traditional knowledge (or Inuit Quajimajatuqangit (IQ), similar to other indigenous traditions) and the co-operative movement’s values and principles. It begins: “One of the most significant recent developments in redrawing the geo-political map of Canada was the creation of the Nunavut Territory. I … Culture (including indigenous culture) and Social Change
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