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Worker Cooperatives as an Innovative Strategy to Address Income ...


Worker Cooperatives as an Innovative Strategy to Address Income ...

Titzler, Bryan, "Worker Cooperatives as an Innovative Strategy to Address Income Inequality?" (2016). Stevenson Center for Community and Economic ...

Worker Cooperatives as an Innovative Strategy to Address Income ...

This project explores the relation between the magnitude of the cooperative sector and the degree of income inequality in a country.

How Worker Co-ops Decide to Share Profits

The profit generated by non-owner workers must be returned to the indivisible reserves of the cooperative and not distributed directly to the worker-owners.

The Benefits of Worker Cooperatives - Democracy at Work Institute

Bringing more stakeholders in to share the fruits of successful business can be a key to addressing inequality. By placing workers' needs before investors' ...

Global efficiency and profitability: Cooperatives as social innovation ...

Cooperativism, as an agent of social innovation, significantly contributes to fostering a dynamic economy and plays a fundamental role in rural areas.

Worker Co-ops - NCBA CLUSA

Help members grow into influential leaders and decision-makers: Many worker cooperatives today formed from a need to address persistent low-wage jobs in ...

Introduction to Worker Cooperatives and Their Role in the Changing ...

Although worker cooperatives are innovative and flexible enterprises, ... marily addresses primarily health and safety, not wage or employment, issues ...

Case Studies: Business Conversions to Worker Cooperatives

ABOUT PROJECT EQUITY. Our mission is to foster economic resiliency in low-income communities by demonstrating and replicating strategies that.

Bay Area Blueprint: Worker Cooperatives as a Community Economic ...

Expanding worker cooperatives in low-income communities can be a powerful, deeply impactful community economic development strategy. Worker coops provide ...

Worker and Community Ownership as an Economic Development ...

Cummings S. L. (1999). Developing cooperatives as a job creation strategy for low-income workers. N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change, 25(2), 181-211.

Introduction Worker Cooperative Overview - Deep Blue Repositories

Some of the most successful conversions started with employee-minded millennial/Gen X business owners. “Worker ownership is a strategy, people ...

The Union Toolkit for Cooperative Solutions

... innovative efforts to unionize worker cooperatives ... the Local embraced an innovative organizing strategy to address the needs of California healthcare workers.

Building and Sustaining Worker Cooperatives in the US

Those newly interested in cooperatives are coming to the movement at a time of deep economic inequality, wage stagnation, and job precarity.

Cities Developing Worker Co-ops: Efforts in Ten Cities

... profit worker co-op businesses. The majority of the businesses are in the ... community-wide empowerment strategy given relatively poor economic conditions and a ...

Innovative models of cooperative of independent workers for decent ...

The most structured example of collaborative employment is the experience of (worker) cooperatives in the fields of production, marketing and strategic ...

Cooperatives at Sustainable Economies Law Center

Worker-owned coops are an innovative and powerful business model that ... reduce workers' take-home pay by as much as 11%. One worker-owned cafe has ...

A Strategy for Unions and Coops: Toward Building A Labor ...

The unionized cooperative positions itself to maximize efficiency and increase revenue in the competitive market. The cooperative can draw not ...

Transforming Low-Wage Healthcare: The Promise of Worker ...

Worker ownership also promotes economic equity and resilience in ways that benefit patients. When a cooperative is profitable, workers share the ...

Worker Cooperatives | Community-Wealth.org

A report by the Democracy Collaborative, a national organization promoting worker cooperatives, cites studies finding that worker-owned businesses had higher ...

Opening Up Possibilities in Co-op Innovation - Capital Impact Partners

“The convergence of the growth of worker co-ops and a wave of retiring small-business owners offers a unique opportunity that is attracting the ...