Multi-stakeholder Models
PDF Publications
Solidarity as a Business Model: A Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives Manual, Kent State University Cooperative Development Center
New Generation Co-ops
PDF Publications
Understanding New Cooperative Models: An Ownership-Control Rights Typology, Fabio Chaddad and Michael Cook
The Impact of New Generation Cooperatives on Their Communities, USDA, RBS Research Report, No. 177
New Generation Cooperatives and the Capper-Volstead Act: Playing a New Game by the Old Rules, Shannon Ferrell
“New Generation” Farmer Cooperatives: The Problem of the “Just Investing” Farmer, Christopher Kelley
New Generation Cooperatives and Cooperative Theory, Andrea Harris, Brenda Stefanson, and Murray Fulton
The Limited Liability Company Versus the New Generation Cooperative: Alternative Business Forms for Rural Economic Development, Roger Brown and Christopher Merrett
Worker-owned Co-ops
PDF Publications
Legal Guide to Cooperative Conversions: A Business Owner’s Legal Guide to Cooperative Conversion Including Conversion Models, Case Studies and Sample Documents, Jannell Orsi, William Lisa, and Sushil Jacob
Think Outside the Boss: How to Create a Worker Owned Business, Sustainable Economies Law Center
A brief, visual guide to understanding Employee Ownership Structures, Camille Kerr
Case Studies Business Conversions to Worker Cooperatives: Insights and Readiness Factors for Owners and Employees, Project Equity
Websites
Example Bylaws, Casa Nueva, Athens, Ohio
Example Operating Rules, Casa Nueva, Athens, Ohio
Video
Cooperative Home Care Associates (Portraits of the Solidarity Economy)
What is a Workers’ Co-operative? Local Market Co-op
Own the Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time
A Co-op Story: Beyond Care Childcare Cooperative, The Laura Flanders Show
Damayan Cleaning Cooperative: Helping One Another|Labor Trafficking Survivors Open Co-op, The Laura Flanders Show
A Co-op Story: People’s Construction in Rockaway, The Laura Flanders Show
