Databases of Cooperative Sources
There is a wealth of information about cooperatives. Below are links to websites, films, books, publications, and academic journals.
Databases of Cooperative Sources
International Websites
Films
Recuperated Cooperatives in Argentina
Cooperative Home Care Associates: America’s Largest Worker Cooperative
Jackson Rising: A film about Corporation Jackson
Can We Do It Ourselves?: Thoughtful documentary on cooperatives in the workplace
Democracy in the Workplace: All About Collectives
Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society: Unofficial video | Official video
Mondragon Cooperative Corporation: the world’s largest worker
The Rochdale Pioneers: The ‘first’ consumer cooperative
Co op History the Rochdale Pioneers
Cuba’s New Cooperative Law (Democracy At Work – 2021)
Books
Akuno, Kaliu, Nangwaya, Ajamu (2017) Jackson Rising, Daraja Press (An account of the origins and philosophy of the African-American led cooperative initiative, Corporation Jackson in Mississippi State, USA)
Ellerman David, (1992) Property And Contract In Economics: The Case For Economic Democracy, The World Bank (One of the most comprehensive justifications of cooperative property rights, and at the same time an incisive critique of the theory of property rights that underlies the employment contract of capitalist property rights)
Harrison, Rob (2013): People Over Capital, World Changing (Essays on Worker Cooperatives represent an alternative to the investor-owned firm, and its implications for ordinary people around the world.)
Hossein, Caroline Shenaz (2018): The Black Social Economy in The Americas, Palgrave (An examination of the largely informal ways in which African Diaspora communities in the Americas have created cooperative forms of intervention to resist poverty and achieve economic empowerment.)
Jones, Anthony, and Maskoff, William (1991) Ko-ops, Indiana University Press. (The account of how Mikhail Gorbachev tried, unsuccessfully, to introduce worker cooperatives into the state dominated economic system in the final days of the Soviet Union.
Kelly, Marjorie (2001) The Divine Right of Capital. Berrett-Koehler Publishers Ltd. (Unpicks the ways in which capital and its owners have been accorded special treatment over the decades, and how to stop and turn the tide.)
Kelly, Marjorie and Howard, Ted (2019): The Making of a Democratic Economy, Berrett Koehler Publishers (A largely US based survey of the wave in worker cooperatives) Mayo, Ed (2015): The Cooperative Advantage, Co-operatives UK. (An examination of the benefits of cooperative enterprises: economic, political, and psychological, based mainly on evidence from the UK)
Nembhard, Jessica Gordon (2014): Collective Courage, Penn State Press (A history of African-American led cooperative endeavour from 1780 to 2012)
Novkovic, Sanja and Webb, Tom (2014) Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era, Zed Books (Essays exploring how the neo-classical economic approach is challenged by the existence and success of cooperatives especially worker cooperatives.)
Pistor, Katharina (2019) The Code of Capital (An exploration into how lawyers have over the centuries developed legal mechanisms for privileging capital and its owners.)
Ranis, Peter (2016) Cooperatives Confront Capitalism; Zed. (An examination of the worker cooperative movement in the USA, Argentina, and Cuba)
Restakis, John (2010): Humanizing the Economy, New Society Publishers (A human interest survey of cooperative initiatives from around the world, taking in experiences from Spain, Italy, the USA, Argentina, Japan, The UK, India, and more)
Thomas, Henk and Logan, Chris (1982) Mondragon. Routledge. (An economic analysis into the operations of Mondragon)
Whyte, William Foote and Whyte, Kathleen King (1988): Making Mondragon, ILR Press (A history of the formation and operations of Mondragon from inception in 1956 to the early 1990s, by which time Mondragon had been well established.)
Wolf, Richard (2012) Democracy At Work Haymarket Books – (Makes the case for democracy to also be applied in the work place through Worker Self-Directed Enterprises.).
