Worker-owned cooperatives (WOC) are often positioned by their advocates as having many potential advantages and benefits for workers and communities. These range from the “economic”–cooperatives can create stable jobs and build wealth, to the social and political–WOC can democratize the economy; to the truly transformative–WOC can reorient how people want to live and be in the world.
In the United States, the research supporting these claims is sparse. As Massachusetts cooperative ecosystem grows, organizers and worker-owners are looking to existing research and conducting their own research in order to learn from each other, build relationships, and create the enabling conditions that can help WOC’s meet their community and world-changing promise.
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