Reading Room 

For a comprehensive community-generated reading list, visit the Worker Co-op and Economic Democracy Reading List on Goodreads. 

Below we have posted PDF files of papers and current research on various topics related to worker cooperatives. Click the icon to download. 

1. Local Development in Emilia Romagna: Alternatives in Action
2.  The Cooperative District of Imola: Forging the High Road to Globalization
3. The 1042 roll-over cooperative in practice: A case study of how Select Machine became a co-op
4. Does Cooperation Equal Utopia? -- A Qualitative Study of the Organisational Cultures of Three Worker Cooperatives in the San Francisco Bay Area
5. Draft Legislation to Establish an Employee-Ownership Bank
6. Section-by-Section Analysis of the Employee-Ownership Bank Legislation