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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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Multicultural Health Brokers Co-operative

Canada offers hope. Possibility. The fulfilling of a dream. Freedom and democracy. But for many new Canadians and ethnic minorities, the obstacles to fulfilling their dreams are overwhelming… Watch our video to learn more. Watch the Multicultural Health Brokers Co-operative YouTube video


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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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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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