What Is a Cooperative? How to Start One in 6 Simple Steps

Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative

Learn how to start a worker cooperative or convert an existing business into one.

Start.coop | Empower Cooperative Growth

Discover resources and support to build and grow cooperatively-owned businesses, fostering community wealth-building and economic stability.

cooperative/Formation Documents at main · NorthskySocial/cooperative

Information about our Cooperative. Contribute to NorthskySocial/cooperative development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Cooperative Economy (@cooperatives.bsky.social)

Advocating for a democratic, equitable, and inclusive world through cooperatives, worker ownership, unions, mutual aid, and workplace democracy. 💜 #EconomicDemocracy 🌲🌲 usworker.coop | ncbaclusa.coop | workers.coop | ica.coop

Cooperative non-profit social media for Canada - CoSocial Community Cooperative

CoSocial, officially CoSocial Community Cooperative, is a member-owned organization with the purpose of providing democratically-run open social media.

How to set up a co-operative - part one

With co-operatives enjoying a renaissance, this is the first in a three part series from specialists at Co-operatives UK on how to set up a co-operative. Mark Simmonds explains the very first steps

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If you're interested in starting a worker-owned cooperative, this letter is for you.

The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management

Cooperatives have spread across virtually all continents. Today, the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) recognises over 3 million cooperatives with 1 billion cooperative members or about 12% of the human population and serving many more members of the public, collectively owning trillions in assets. This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject and the current state of affairs with regard to the study of cooperation in the economy generally and of the cooperative and related sectors particularly. It highlights the essential issues and debates; provides a future research agenda, outlining the distinctions and similarities between individual and (inter)organisational cooperation; and explores the connections of cooperative economics and management to fundamental ethical principles. This book examines coopetition and the similarities and differences between competitive economics and cooperative economics, identifying to what extent and how cooperative economics and management are more capable of addressing the problems of global neoliberalism, such as ecological collapse, wealth inequity, value capture, and distribution, including via online platforms and social/relational problems. This book offers a variety of new research and theory‑building from various disciplines, particularly focusing on the fields of economics and management but extending beyond these disciplines to domains such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science. It will become the standard reference work for not only a broad and large audience of scholars, researchers, and students but also interested professionals, policymakers, regulators, and cooperators in the field wishing to orient themselves in a global, rapidly developing movement and field of study with reference to issues of producing and allocating resources and focusing on the impact of cooperation on issues like risk, trust, the development of preferences, institutional governance, networks, and inequity. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. The handbook has received an Honorable Mention for the Joyce Rothschild book prize.

How to set up a co-operative - part two

Linda Banks of Co-operatives UK writes the second in a three part series, focusing on people and what’s needed so that they can work well together.

Liberating work - workers.coop

Worker cooperatives enable workers to unite and collectively advance their economic, social, and cultural interests.

CommonsCloud – Eines lliures tecnoètiques cooperatives

Eines lliures tecnoètiques cooperatives

History Cooperative

Our modern world is shaped by the decisions, actions, and events of generations past. To understand who we are, explore how we got here at History Cooperative.

Worker What??!! - A Short Introduction to worker cooperatives (A6, 12pp) - workers.coop

Written and designed as a primer on worker cooperatives, for people new to worker co-ops and for wide distribution. ‘Worker What??!!’ describes clearly what worker co-ops are and what we stand for. It includes testimonials from worker cooperators, and was put together with a view to being stocked in worker co-op shop floors or offices,... Read more »

Coops 4 Coops

Your dedicated directory of cooperatives offering services to other cooperatives across Canada.