Economic Recovery and Employee Ownership
Author(s):
Alexis Butler, Shevanthi Daniel-Rabkin, Kyle Funk, Melissa Hoover, Tina Lee, Lauren Lowery, Julian McKinley, Zen Trenholm
Year:
2021
Economic Impact
How Economic Democracy Impacts Workers, Firms, and Communities
Author(s):
Laura Hanson Schlachter, Olga Prushinskaya
Year:
2021
How Economic Democracy Impacts Workers, Firms, and Communities presents findings from a national survey of 1,147 workers in 82 worker cooperatives and follow-up interviews with 15 participants—the first national survey of its kind. This novel data, collected in 2017, allows us to explore the impact of workplace democracy on individuals, firms, and communities across the United States. It also provides important opportunities for future research about how worker cooperatives can promote resilience and racial equity in this moment.
Ensuring Cannabis Equity Through Shared Ownership
Author(s):
Anh-Thu Nguyen
Year:
2021
Worker Co-ops: Weathering the Storm of COVID-19
Author(s):
Mo Manklang, Zen Trenholm, Olga Prushinskaya
Year:
2020
SPACING
In this moment of crisis, worker cooperatives are a reliable, proven solution to address the loss of jobs and income inequality.
COVID-19 has devastated the small business community, and the clock is ticking on permanent shutdowns of small businesses. 45 percent of businesses believe they have less than six months until a permanent shutdown is unavoidable. Tens of millions are still unemployed. Millions of Americans will fall off an “income cliff” when unemployment benefits end.
COVID-19 has devastated the small business community, and the clock is ticking on permanent shutdowns of small businesses. 45 percent of businesses believe they have less than six months until a permanent shutdown is unavoidable. Tens of millions are still unemployed. Millions of Americans will fall off an “income cliff” when unemployment benefits end.
Working With Small Business Cooperatives: A Guide for Public Sector, Private Sector, and Nonprofit Allies
Author(s):
Margaret Lund
Year:
2020
SPACING
US Worker Cooperatives: A State of the Sector
Author(s):
Tim Palmer
Year:
2015
Worker cooperatives have increasingly drawn attention from the media, policy makers and academics in recent years. Individual cooperatives across the country have been highlighted, and substantive studies have been conducted of the worker cooperative experience in other countries, including Spain, Italy, France, Canada and Argentina. But what do we know about worker cooperatives in the US as a whole?
Democracy at Work Institute/USFWC Press Kit
Author(s):
Democracy at Work Institute and US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Year:
2014
The Democracy at Work Institute/USFWC Press Kit includes information about worker cooperatives, why they are important, examples of existing cooperatives and development organizations, city government initiatives, frequently asked questions, and more.
Preliminary Census of Worker Cooperatives in the United States
Author(s):
Melissa Hoover, with support from Logan Harris and Amy Johnson
Year:
2012
The purpose of this study is to get as current and accurate a count as possible of the worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces in the United States. Some previous counts were done in the 2000s, and most recently the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives' study of the economic impact of cooperatives included worker cooperatives. But there were issues with all of these studies, and moreover none of them gathered data on longevity.
Inclusive Capitalism for the American Workforce: Reaping the Rewards of Economic Growth through Broad-based Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Author(s):
Richard Freeman, Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse
Year:
2011
This proposal examines the problem of economic disparity facing the United States, and presents an option for reform based on employee ownership and incentive-based compensation. It also proposes a change in tax policy accordingly and examines the impact of the proposal on a few Fortune 500 firms.
Building a Platform for Economic Democracy: A Cooperative Development Strategy for the Bronx
Author(s):
Nicholas Iuviene
Year:
2013
Cooperative development efforts over the last 25 years have been largely inspired by, and modeled on, the Mondragon experience in the Basque region of Spain. None of these efforts has achieved nearly the success of Mondragon, which stabilized and dramatically developed a regional economy through the creation and growth of a diverse set of industrial worker and supportive secondary cooperatives. US efforts in cooperative development have typically replicated some aspects of the Mondragon model but ignored others.
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