Worker Cooperatives

Worker Cooperatives

Resources

Cooperative Development Institute see basic information on coops
California Center for Cooperative Development
How to set up a Workers Co-op by Radical Routes (Catalyst Collective)
Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, "Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex" (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, 1991).
E. G. Nadeau and David J. Thompson, "Cooperation Works!: How People Are Using Cooperative Action to Rebuild Communities and Revitalize the Economy" (Lone Oak Press, 1997).
Frank Adams, and Gary Hansen Putting Democracy To Work: A Practical Guide for Starting and Managing Worker-Owned Businesses (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc, San Francisco, 1993).
Whyte, W. F., Whyte, K. K. (1991) Making Mondragon, New York: ILR Press/Itchaca.
T.M. Thomas Isaac, Richard W. Franke, and Pyaralal Raghavan, "Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative. The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi," Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Ian MacPherson, "Co-operative Studies in Australia and Beyond", Labour History, November 2006.
John Curl, For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America (PM Press, 2009).
John Curl, History of Collectivity in the Bay Area, (Homeward Press, 1982, with contributions from Judy Berg, Allen Cohen, and Morris Older)

Sharryn Kasmir, The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town (State University of New York Press, 1996). ("argues that coops have fostered management-labor relations that undermine working class identity and labor unions")
Louis Proyect, "The Myth of Mondragon", The Unrepentant Marxist, December 6, 2009.