Resources about cooperatives

Note: Not all of these are strictly about cooperatives as a company form, but also about the mindset and cooperative culture in general.

Articles

• The Transformative Power of Worker Ownership (NPQ)
• Cultivating a Cooperative Mindset (Zeus Jones)
  
• Cooperative identity, values & principles (ICA)
  
• How employee-owned firms hope to disrupt the tech industry (Crain’s)
  
• Can Coops Revolutionize the Tech Industry? (Model View Culture)
  
• The Difference Between “ESOP” and “Employee-Owned” (Certified EO)
  
• a manifesto for cooperative innovation (impact edit)
  
• When Workers Control the Code (Wired)
  
• Art Co-ops and the Power of Mobilizing Collaboration for Creativity (Shareable)
  
• Tech co-operatives are leaving the startup rat race behind (Wired)
  
• The Argument For Worker-Owned Tech Collectives (FastCompany)
  
• The story of Meetup’s failed exit to community (on Medium)
• Post-capitalist solutions: How worker-owned tech co-ops are boosting the solidarity economy (Occupy)
• So gründet ihr erfolgreich eine Genossenschaft (in German, Krautreporter)
  
• The Radical Politics of Star Trek (Tribune)
  
• Brewery workers pour their hearts into business when given a stake (PBS)
  
• Case study how Slow Bloom Coffee became a cooperative (LA Times)

Podcasts

• The Upstream podcast is always fantastic, but they have a two-parter documentary specifically on cooperatives: part 1 / part 2
• All Things Co-op Podcast
  
• The Common Share Podcast

Books

• Cooperatives at Work (George Cheney, Matt Noyes, Emi Do, Marcelo Vieta, Joseba Azkarraga, Charlie Michel)
• Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy (Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana, Dominique Méda)
• Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Jason Hickel)
  
• Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now (Margaret J. Wheatley, Deborah Frieze)
  
• Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good (Christian Felber)
  
• Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (Nathan Schneider)
• Genossenschaften – Geschichte, Aktualität und Renaissance (Gisela Notz)
  
• Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis (Mathew Lawrence, Adrienne Buller)
• Transcending Capitalism Through Cooperative Practices (Catherine P. Mulder)
• The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism (Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, Andrea Vetter)
  
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (adrienne maree brown)
  
• The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism (Adrienne Buller)
  
• Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Kim Kelly)

Videos

• Jessica Gordon Nembhard on reaching economic justice through cooperative economics (YouTube)
  
• Ela Kagel on platform co-ops in Berlin (YouTube)
• Arizmendiarrieta. The miracle of Mondragon (YouTube)
  
• Let's create our own cooperative economy | Benoît Molineaux | TEDx (YouTube)
  

Institutions, movements, wikis

• Zebras Unite
• Democracy Next
• Solidarity Economy (Wikipedia)
• co-operative college
• International Cooperative Alliance
  
• Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers (Wikipedia)
  
• United Nations co-op hub
• Cultivate.Coop is a library of information about cooperatives
• a very comprehensive tech coops list (Github)
• Community Wealth: Worker Cooperatives
• The Loomio Co-op Handbook
  

Platform cooperatives

• Driver’s Coop
• Signalise
  
• Comradery
  
• Artisans Coop
• Resonate Coop

Other design/tech cooperatives

• CoTech: a network of ethical co-operatives providing technology, digital and creative services (UK)
• Outlandish (UK)
• Common Knowledge (UK)
• form & function (UK)
• creative.coop (UK)
• agile collective (UK)
• We Are Open Collective (UK)
• The Developer Society (UK)
• DisCO.coop
  
• ctrl.alt.coop (DE)
• Reinblau (DE)
• Cologne Intelligence (DE)
• Wigwam (DE)
• Hypha (CA)
• fiqus (AR)
• animus (AR)
• ChiCommons (US)

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