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2019 Worker Cooperative State of the Sector Report

Author(s):

Tim Palmer

Year:

2020

Covering six years of business progress, the 2019 Worker Cooperative State of the Sector is a report on worker-owned business in the United States. This report is a co-production of Democracy at Work Institute and the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. The report draws upon the latest developments in the field and deepens our understanding of the sector.

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Employee Ownership Often Helps to Shape and Build Hot New Markets—Then What?

Submitted by jmckinley on December 20, 2019

New Belgium Brewing helped build the burgeoning craft beer market by shaping best practices in it: a quality product, consistent innovation, ethics and sustainability at the fore — and employee ownership at the core.

Employee-owned companies have had an outsized role in building the market for craft beers, the same hot market that eventually gobbled up New Belgium.

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Thirty-Three Receive Participatory Management Certificate

Submitted by jmckinley on December 3, 2019

By Rebecca Bauen, Director of Education and Training

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Participate in the Worker Co-op Census

Posted on August 12, 2019

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We're teaming up with Rutgers University on a Participatory Management Certificate Program

Posted on December 6, 2018

Our School of Democratic Management is evolving and growing!

DAWI is thrilled to partner with Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations to offer this Certificate Program in Participatory Management. This partnership helps us increase our reach and better share the knowledge to make all values-driven businesses stronger.

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Celebrate Giving Tuesday!

Posted on November 14, 2018

Celebrate Giving Tuesday by supporting worker entrepreneurship!

At DAWI, we are expanding the worker cooperative model to reach workers who have been locked out of good jobs and business ownership opportunities. We work at multiple levels to foster a just, participatory economy.

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Historic federal legislation embeds support for employee-ownership within the SBA

Posted on August 14, 2018

The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and Democracy at Work Institute are thrilled to announce that the Main Street Employee Ownership Act was signed into law on August 13, 2018.

Please join us in celebrating the first legislation in support of employee ownership in over two decades, and the first to explicitly name worker cooperatives as a priority for the SBA. This is a huge step forward for worker cooperatives, and we are proud to have played a role in making it.