Worker cooperatives have a long and tortured history, but recently they have been advancing globally on a more stable foundation than before. In this essay I provide a theoretical context for the current growth of cooperatives, drawing on Marxist theory to illuminate their potential. I also consider the sociology and economics of worker cooperatives, in addition to expounding and evaluating their history in the United States. A case-study of a cooperative printing press in Jamaica Plain gives a more intimate portrayal of worker co-ops, and hopefully provides lessons for future cooperators. I interpret society as on the cusp of a triumphant advance of cooperativism; the main purpose of this essay is to explain how and why this advance will o...
Thesis: Ph. D. in Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Stud...
Worker-owned cooperatives, defined by two advocates of the model as, "values-driven businesses that ...
Work may provide subsistence, but for most people it is a necessary evil. For communities, businesse...
Worker cooperatives have a long and tortured history, but recently they have been advancing globally...
Focusing on the new worker cooperative movement in the West, this study not only contains the first ...
Until recently, worker-owned cooperatives—firms whose employees fully co-own and democratically oper...
Even though the access of workers to capital has been promoted in some countries for over centuries,...
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityConsumers' Cooperat...
This dissertation explores the topic of urban policies relating to worker-owned cooperatives, and th...
When people around the globe are increasingly confronted with the challenges of rising economic ineq...
This dissertation examines the efforts of farmers and workers to put forward an alternative formulat...
The number of worker cooperatives in the United States has grown substantially in recent decades, as...
Worker cooperatives have a lengthy, often radical history, with interest in them growing since the o...
Are worker cooperatives and the solidarity economy viable tools for revolutionary change in a neolib...
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Stud...
Worker-owned cooperatives, defined by two advocates of the model as, "values-driven businesses that ...
Work may provide subsistence, but for most people it is a necessary evil. For communities, businesse...
Worker cooperatives have a long and tortured history, but recently they have been advancing globally...
Focusing on the new worker cooperative movement in the West, this study not only contains the first ...
Until recently, worker-owned cooperatives—firms whose employees fully co-own and democratically oper...
Even though the access of workers to capital has been promoted in some countries for over centuries,...
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityConsumers' Cooperat...
This dissertation explores the topic of urban policies relating to worker-owned cooperatives, and th...
When people around the globe are increasingly confronted with the challenges of rising economic ineq...
This dissertation examines the efforts of farmers and workers to put forward an alternative formulat...
The number of worker cooperatives in the United States has grown substantially in recent decades, as...
Worker cooperatives have a lengthy, often radical history, with interest in them growing since the o...
Are worker cooperatives and the solidarity economy viable tools for revolutionary change in a neolib...
Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance
Thesis: Ph. D. in Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Stud...
Worker-owned cooperatives, defined by two advocates of the model as, "values-driven businesses that ...
Work may provide subsistence, but for most people it is a necessary evil. For communities, businesse...