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Engage with the history and current happenings of the worker co-op movement through watching videos and reading.

 

What is worker ownership? Get the basics here.

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You can also check out our YouTube playlist here for additional content

 

Latest videos:

Get Your LLC Cooperative Ready for Tax Season

Get Your Co-op Ready for 2023 Tax Season

Foundations of Workplace Democracy: Co-op Structure and Decision Making

Growing Into Worker Ownership: How to convert your small business into a worker cooperative

Watch: Half Past Capitalism: How new laws can accelerate mainstreaming of co-ops

The Home Beautiful Transition to Employee Ownership – Their Story

Foundations of Workplace Democracy: Leadership Succession

Prepare your Worker Co-op for Tax Season

Tax Preparation for LLC Co-ops

Foundations of Workplace Democracy Web Series: Setting Membership Fees and Trial Periods

Co-op Bookshelf

Below you will find a list of often-cited books, videos, and other resources related to worker co-ops. Use them for shared learning across your organization, or as personal development. 

Have a recommendation for the bookshelf? Send it to info@usworker.coop.

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place
Building Co-operative Power: Stories and Strategies from Worker Co-operatives in the Connecticut River Valley
For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America
Birth Of A Cooperative: Hoedads, Inc., A Worker Owned Forest Labor Co Op
Worker Cooperatives in America
The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organisational Democracy and Participation


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