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== Articles ==
== Articles ==


[https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/womens-co-operatives-rojava/2016/06/07 Women’s co-operatives in Rojava]
* 2020-05-08 [https://truthout.org/articles/pandemic-crash-shows-worker-co-ops-are-more-resilient-than-traditional-business/ Pandemic Crash Shows Worker Co-ops Are More Resilient Than Traditional Business]
* 2019-09-13 [https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/community-owned-grocery-stores-revitalizing-food-deserts Why Community-Owned Grocery Stores Are the Best Recipe for Revitalizing Food Deserts]
* 2019-03-19 [https://www.denverpost.com/2019/03/15/cooperatives-revival-colorado/ Colorado co-ops seeing a revival in state with strong ties to “radical tradition”]
* 2019-03-08 [https://www.thenation.com/article/worker-cooperatives-economy-business/ What if Workers Owned Their Workplaces?]
* 2018-10-03 [http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2018/10/03/black-star-co-op-a-brewpub-owned-by-the-community-for-the-community Black Star Co-op: A brewpub owned by the community for the community]
* 2018-07-21 [https://www.fastcompany.com/90205860/how-a-small-worker-controlled-farm-collective-could-transform-labor-for-decades How a small worker-owned trust could transform agricultural labor for decades]
* 2017-12-07 [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/is-management-era-over/ Is the era of management over?]
* 2017-02-17 [http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38928528 No CEO: The Swedish company where nobody is in charge]
* 2016-06-07 Rojava [https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/womens-co-operatives-rojava/2016/06/07 Women’s co-operatives in Rojava]
* 2016-06-06 [https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/kevin-carson-mutualizing-water-commons/2016/06/04 Co-opertizing the Water System]
* 2016-05-31 [https://www.popularresistance.org/co-operative-alternatives-to-uber-and-airbnb-developing/ 11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy]
* 2016-03-07 Spain [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/07/mondragon-spains-giant-cooperative The town of Mondragon, Spain forms a giant co-op.]
* 2015-05-26 [http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/26/worker-owned-tech-cooperatives-find-a-niche-near-silicon-valley.html Worker-owned Tech Coops]
* 2016-03-28 [https://www.thenation.com/article/worker-cooperatives-are-more-productive-than-normal-companies/ Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies]
* 2015-03-05 [http://waldenlabs.com/decentralize-big-retail/ Decentralize Big-Retail]
 
== Videos ==
 
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<p>Shift Change Trailer from <a href="http://shiftchange.org/">ShiftChange.org</a>.</p></center></html>


[https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/kevin-carson-mutualizing-water-commons/2016/06/04 Co-opertizing the Water System]


[https://www.popularresistance.org/co-operative-alternatives-to-uber-and-airbnb-developing/ 11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy]
<html><center><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qqUBdX1d3ok?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center></html>


[http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/26/worker-owned-tech-cooperatives-find-a-niche-near-silicon-valley.html Worker-owned Tech Coops]


[http://www.thenation.com/article/worker-cooperatives-are-more-productive-than-normal-companies/ Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies]


[http://waldenlabs.com/decentralize-big-retail/ Decentralize Big-Retail]
<html><center><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rgpOgGfkb9k?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></br>Discussion of several companies, including Gore-Tex and Visa, that have been built with a decentralized structure.</center></html>


== Videos ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53z-KK26yd8 Cooperative Structures]
 
 
== Resources ==
 
[http://needcomputerhelp.wixsite.com/opportunityfarms Opportunity Farms] - Provides the 'opportunity' for our homeless neighbors in need to regroup and retrieve their life of self-sufficiency through the manufacturing of baked goods made from locally sourced ingredients.


<html><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/38342677" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
[https://www.jobmanufacturing.us/ JOB Manufacturing] - A system of "manufacturing transition campuses" where employees receive an 'Efficiency Home' of their own, eat in a fully staffed restaurant, have access to day or night child care and minimal wages and stay competitive with low-cost labor in other countries. Designed for people, regardless of their life circumstances, whether they be Ex-Offenders, At-Risk Youth, Veterans, Homeless, Aged Out Foster Children, Refugees, Immigrants, the Underemployed, the Physically or Emotionally Adaptive, Recovering Substance Abusers, Victims of Domestic Violence and literally anyone, who is looking for or in need of an opportunity to change the course of their lives.
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/38342677">SHIFT CHANGE - 2012 [preview]</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user334589">Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>


{{#ev:vimeo|38342677|640|center|Shift Change Trailer from [http://shiftchange.org/ ShiftChange.org] . . [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/07/mondragon-spains-giant-cooperative Article] on the town of Mondragon's  co-op.<br />Ultimately, it is best for entrepreneurial individuals not to be tied into a system like this. On the other hand, this may be a good model for "ministry" within the network and among the unnumbered.}}


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{{#ev:youtube|qqUBdX1d3ok|640|center|6 min video about a tomato company that apparently has no bosses/bureaucracy/politics.<br />No details of how this works on a practical level. It just seems like a good thing to add to the archives for future reference. Perhaps a PCM or future CoR in California can take a field trip.}}
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Latest revision as of 15:33, 25 July 2023

Articles

Videos

Shift Change Trailer from ShiftChange.org.




Discussion of several companies, including Gore-Tex and Visa, that have been built with a decentralized structure.


Resources

Opportunity Farms - Provides the 'opportunity' for our homeless neighbors in need to regroup and retrieve their life of self-sufficiency through the manufacturing of baked goods made from locally sourced ingredients.

JOB Manufacturing - A system of "manufacturing transition campuses" where employees receive an 'Efficiency Home' of their own, eat in a fully staffed restaurant, have access to day or night child care and minimal wages and stay competitive with low-cost labor in other countries. Designed for people, regardless of their life circumstances, whether they be Ex-Offenders, At-Risk Youth, Veterans, Homeless, Aged Out Foster Children, Refugees, Immigrants, the Underemployed, the Physically or Emotionally Adaptive, Recovering Substance Abusers, Victims of Domestic Violence and literally anyone, who is looking for or in need of an opportunity to change the course of their lives.