The Reading List

This is my reading list.  I keep adding things to it, and you should suggest things to be added also!  I'll put in hyperlinks to the things available online eventually.


  1. Worker Cooperative Model
·      ICA Statement on Cooperative Identity
·      What is a worker cooperative?, USFWC
·      In Good Company: A Guide to Cooperative Employee Ownership

  1. Worker Cooperative Development & Support
·      DAWN Principles
·      Putting Democracy to Work: A Practical Guide for Starting and Managing a Worker-Owned Business, Frank Adams
·      Worker Cooperative Development Models, GEO
·      Co-op 101: A Guide to Starting a Cooperative, Cooperative Development Institute.
·      Effective Practices in Starting Co-ops: The Voice of Canadian Co-op Developers
·      How to Start a Workers’ Cooperative
·      Starting a Worker Cooperative: A Handbook
·      Starting a Worker Cooperative: A Canadian Handbook
·      Building Support Systems for Worker Cooperatives, George Benello

  1. Education for Cooperation
·      Ready for Action, www.popednews.org
·      Educating for Change
·      A Popular Education Handbook, www.popednews.org
·      Moving Beyond Ice Breakers
·      Equipo Maiz
·      Political Education for Worker-Management, George Benello
·      Education for a People-Centered Democratic Economy, Jessica Gordon Nembhard

  1. Governance & Worker Self-Management
·      ICA Model Bylaws
·      Governance v Management, In Good Company
·      Simply Governance, Cooperatives UK

  1. Democratic Decision-Making
·      Facilitation, Seeds of Change
·      Consensus, Seeds of Change
·      Organizing an effective meeting, Seeds of Change

  1. Effective Communication & Conflict Resolution
·      From Conflict to Cooperation, Cooperatives UK

  1. Legal
·      Legal Options for Worker Cooperatives, GEO
·      Think Outside the Boss: How to Create a Worker Owned Business
·      Employment through Cooperation: An Introduction to Worker Co-ops, Texas C-Bar Legal Minute

  1. Financing & Financial Statements
·       Simply Finance, Cooperatives UK
·       Preparing & Marketing Financing Proposals:  A Plain-Language Guide for Worker Co-operatives
·       How to read financial statements, Melissa Hoover

  1. Capitalism & Its Intersections
·      The Color of Wealth, UFE
·      Capitalism Hits the Fan, Richard Wolff
·      Manifesto for Economic Democracy and Ecological Sanity
·      Economics for the 99%, Center for Popular Economics
·      State of the Dream, UFE
·      America Beyond Capitalism, Gar Alperovitz
·      After Capitalism, David Schweickart
·      What Every Environmentalist Should Know about Capitalism, John Bellamy Foster
·      Want Environmental Justice? Fire Your Boss, Omar Friella
·      Occupy, Connect, Create!, Ethan Millar
·      El Cooperativismo Desde Una Perspectiva Integral: Desarrollo Humano Sostenible, INFO COOP COSTA RICA

  1. Solidarity/New Economy
·      Solidarity Economy, Ethan Millar
·      Solidarity Economy, Jessica Gordon-Nemhard
·      African American Economic Solidarity, Jessica Gordon-Nemhard and Ajowa Ifateyo
·      Experiments in Equitable Cooperation, Economic Justice and Democracy, Robin Hahnel p. 339-374
·      Greetings from the New Economy, Dollars & Sense, July/August 2012
·      If you don't like Capitalism, and you don't like Socialism, What do you Want?, Gar Alperovitz & Steve Dubbs

11. Marketing & Communications
·      Fair Game, Praxis Project
·      Reimagining Change, SmartMeme
·      Making the News

12. International
·      From Mondragon to America, Greg MacLeod
·      Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories
·      The Worker Co-operative Movements in Italy, Mondragon and France: Context, Success Factors and Lessons
·      Venezuela's Cooperative Revolution, Dollars & Sense, By Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone
·      Japan Workers' Cooperative Union
·      The Worker Co-op Sector in Canada: Success Factors, and Planning for Growth

13. U.S. Case Studies

·      Union Cab
·      Casa Nueva
·      Alvarado St. Bakery
·      Equal Exchange
·      Collective Copies
·      Tech Cooperatives
·      Burley Design
·      Worker Owned Sewing
·      Interpreters Cooperative of Madison

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