Selected Articles on Worker Cooperative Development from the GEO Archives

Here is a selected list of articles from the GEO archives that illustrate worker cooperative development models.  Be sure to use our search function if there are specific topics you are interested in.

• Ajowa's Blog. (2010). The Wages Model of Cooperative Development: Providing Hope And Jobs And Economic Security To Immigrants.
• Ahmadi, Brahm. (2007). News from People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store.
• Cline, John.  The Worker Cooperative: A Vehicle for Economic Development.
• Corcoran, Hazel, and Mark Goldblatt. (2001). Canada's Government Funds Job Creation by Worker Co-ops.
• Dawson, Aaron. (2010). Worker Ownership, Coming of Age and Out of the Shallows.
• Grillo, Matt. (2001). Making Decisions Together: Collective Copies, a Worker-Owned Union Shop.
• Hill, Norman and Christopher Mackin. (2001). Case 1: Craft Union Cooperatives: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Overcoming Discrimination, a project of the A. Philip Randolph Education Fund.
• Huet, Tim. (2001). News from Mondragon. 
• Livingston, Jane, and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo.  (2007). Hilary Abell of WAGES - Helping Low-Income Latinas Create Green Cleaning Co-ops on the California Coast.
• Marraffino, Joe (2009).  The Replication of Arizmendi Bakery: A Model of the Democratic Worker Cooperative Movement.
• New York Daily News.(2005) Green Worker Cooperatives:The Future Green Republic Of The South Bronx? 
• Ryder, Lisabeth L. (2007). Unions and Cooperatives: Allies in the Struggle to Build Democratic Workplaces. 
• Schoening, Joel. (2009).  Cooperative Replication at WAGES. 
• Yates, Jacquelyn. (2009).  Evergreen: Can "Anchor Institutions" Help Revitalize Declining Neighborhoods by Buying from Local Cooperatives?