Category:Cooperatives
For the definition, typology and more, see our entry on Cooperatives
Introduction
Michel Bauwens:
"Peer production is about mutualizing knowledge and allowing anyone to freely aggregate his immaterial efforts to common pools of knowledge, code and design; stigmergy is the vehicle for mutual coordination of local and global collective efforts through transparency of the cooperation
cooperativism and other such forms are about mutualizing property and physical infrastructures, such as to allow anyone to freely aggregate their efforts to common efforts at provisioning material good and securing a livelyhood; stigmergic coordination of physical production is obtained through open book accounting and open supply chains; and a proposed peer production license can create the solidarity around the commons pools of technical knowledge need for cooperative production
while immaterial cooperation, because of its anti-rival nature, requires a commons-based relational logic and the creation of universally accessible common pools of knowledge; material cooperation, requires mechanisms based on reciprocity and fair trade."
Sources
* Special Issue: Affinities Journal, Vol 4, No 1 (2010): The New Cooperativism [1]
Selection of articles:
- The Cooperative Movement in Century 21. John Curl [2]
- Commons and Cooperatives. Greig de Peuter, Nick Dyer-Witheford [3]
- Social Centres and the New Cooperativism of the Common. Andre Pusey [4]
- A Buzz between Rural Cooperation and the Online Swarm. Andrew Gryf Paterson [5]
- Shareable commisioned these articles to help educate the general public about the value of cooperatives in creating democratic societies.
- an interview with Chuck Gold of ICA about the Int'l Year of the Coop: http://www.shareable.net/blog/co-ops-are-big-business-charles-gould-interview
- feature story about cooperatives, "Meet the New Boss: You": http://www.shareable.net/blog/meet-the-new-boss-you
Typology
- Worker-Owned Cooperatives
- Consumer-Owned Cooperatives
- Housing Cooperatives
- Credit Unions
- Food Cooperatives
- Farmer’s Cooperatives
Statistics
1. Did you know that [6]:
- One billion people are members of cooperatives?
- The 300 largest cooperatives have sales totaling more than $1 trillion per year?
- Cooperative enterprises employ 100 million people worldwide, 20 percent more than multinational enterprises? [7]
2. Jay Walljasper:
"more than 800 million people around the world belong to one of these economic networks. Coops flourish in all sectors of modern society proving that sharing is a practical economic model. They represent a commons-based alternative to both the private market and state controlled enterprises.
Four in ten Canadians are coop members (70 percent in the province of Quebec). In the U.S. 25 percent of the population belongs to at least one coop ranging from credit unions to food coops to major firms like REI and Land O’ Lakes dairy, according to the International Co-Operative Alliance In Belgium, coops account for 20 percent of pharmacies: in Brazil, 37 percent of all agricultural production is from coops; in Singapore, coops account for 55 percent of supermarket purchases; in Bolivia, one credit union handles 25 percent of all savings; in Korea and Japan, 90 percent of farmers belong to coops; in Kenya, coops account for 45 percent of the GDP; in Finland, 34 percent of forestry products, 74 percent of meat and 96 percent of dairy products come from coops.
Around the world, coops provide 100 million jobs, 20 percent more than multinational companies." (http://www.shareable.net/blog/2012-international-year-of-the-co-op)
UK
"The scale and impact of the UK’s mutual sector is revealed in the recently published Mutuals Yearbook, launched by campaigning group Mutuo at its annual conference in London.
Despite the recession, mutual businesses and organisations are set to achieve record revenue figures of £116 billion – a £4bn increase on last year’s total. Mutuo calculates that there are 17,897 mutuals in the country – a small drop on the 2011 figure – and over a million people employed in the sector. Altogether, according to the Yearbook, there are 5,933 co-ops in the UK; 338 Co-operative Trust schools; 9,006 clubs and societies; 184 football and rugby supporters trusts; 250 employee-owned businesses; 55 mutual insurers and friendly societies; 47 mutual building societies; 424 credit unions; 144 NHS Foundation Trusts and 1,516 housing associations." (http://empowerus.co/)
Related Wiki sections
- Material on "Participation", http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Participation
- On Cooperation, http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Cooperation
- Material on "Facilitation", http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Facilitation
- Material on "Collective Intelligence", http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Intelligence
- The emerging Sharing Economy, http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Sharing
Citations
"We acknowledge the cooperative movement as one of the transforming forces of the present society based upon class antagonism. Its great merit is to practically show that the present pauperising, and despotic system of the subordination of labour to capital can be superseded by the republican and beneficent system of the association of free and equal producers."
- Marx, 1866 [8]
"We recommend to the working men to embark in co-operative production rather than in co-operative stores. The latter touch but the surface of the present economical system, the former attacks its groundwork."
- Marx, 1866 [9]
Key Resources
- Cultivate Coop: great wiki on all things cooperative
Key Articles
- International Co-operative Alliance. Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade [online]. http://ica.coop/en/blueprint
- Chavez, H & Maria, E. 100 Million Jobs: The contribution of cooperatives to employment creation. United Nations International Labor Organization [online] (2008). http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/ilo-bookstore/order-online/books/...
- Bruno Jossa: Marx, Marxism and the Cooperative Movement.
How-To
Creating coops in the digital age:
- Worker Coop toolbox: http://www.cccd.coop/files/worker_coop_toolbox.pdf
- A Technology Freelancer’s Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative: http://electricembers.net/pubs/TechCoopHOWTO.pdf
- Steps to Starting a Worker Coop: http://www.cccd.coop/files/Steps%20to%20Starting%20a%20Worker%20Coop.pdf
- How to Start a Housing Co-op (U.S.)
Key Books
- Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy. by Michael Lewis & Pat Conaty ; The Resilience Imperative is a key book integrating a vision of cooperatives in a broad social economy consisting of commons, solidarity economics, the principle of resilience, etc ..
- Johnston Birchall, The Co-op: the People's Business: "For a full picture of the twists and turns of the history of the Co-op movement in the UK from the 1770s and right up to the mid-1990s with some earlier links to Ireland (before independence)"
- John Curl, For All the People - Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative movements and Communalism in America. For the US history of Co-ops and the twists and turns.
- Recommended by Pat Conaty:
"Recent books on Co-operative Economy solutions including:
- John Restakis, Humanizing the Economy,
- Richard Sennett's book Together,
- Bruno Roelants Capital and the Debt Trap. and
- Gar Alperovitz's latest book (2013) What Then Must We Do?
- Bruno Roelants with Claudia Sanchez Bajo. Capital and the Debt Trap: Learning from Co-operatives in the Global Crisis. MacMillan, 2013.
- John Curl (2009) For All the People, PM Press, 2009: On US co-ops and their potential with a fabulous review of US Co-op history:
- Mark Lutz (1999) Economics for the Common Good, Routledge. For a superb intellectual case for co-operative economics including a brilliant case for worker ownership and rethinking the corporation'
- JW Smith (2009) Economic Democracy - a Grand Strategy for World Peace and Prosperity.
- Paul Hirst (1993) Associative Democracy: New forms of social and economic governance, Polity Press. convincingly updates the case for Guild Socialism
Reports
- Co-operation in the Age of Google. By Robin Murray.
- The New Wave of Mutuality. By ROBIN MURRAY. Policy Network, 2012.
Key People
- Anne-Marie Naylor of Common Futures, recommended by Josef-Davies Coates
- Mira Luna, reporting on cooperative developments for Shareable
- Janelle Orsi, sharing lawyer
Recommended by John Restakis:
- Lou Hammond Ketilson ; Centre for the Study of Co-operatives ; University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
- Sonja Novkovic ; St. Marys University
hard core cooperative academic; Master's in Cooperative Business Administration
- Ana Maria Peredo ; Centre for Co-op and Community Based Economy, University of Victoria
- Hazel Corcoran ; Canadian Worker Co-op Federation
- Anne Hoyt ,Dept. Chair Consumer Science, University of Michigan
cooperative theorist; used to run Center for Coop studies at Un. of Michigan
- Vera Negri Zamagni, University of Bologna
foremost cooperative historian in Italy
- Renate Georgen, Le Mat
practitioner, very engaged in theory and practice of cooperative social enterprise; Le Mat is largest social franchise coop in Italy, perhaps even in Europe
Other cooperative economists, or related, as recommended by Pat Conaty:
- Angela Espinosa
- Hazel Henderson
- Emily Kawano
- Margrit Kennedy
- Mary Mellor
- Margie Mendell
- Carlota Perez
- Ann Pettifor
- Molly Scott-Cato
and also:
- Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper in the UK
- Margie Mendell, Montreal, Quebec and Director of the Karl Polanyi Institute
- Frances Hutchinson, author of the Political Economy of Guild Socialism and Social Credit
Key Videos
- Stefano Zamagni on Cooperatives as a Counterpoint to Corporatism
- Robin Murray on the Future of Co-operation
Visualizations
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Directory
Pages in category "Cooperatives"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 799 total.
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- African American Cooperative Movement
- AgriLedger
- Aixada Sistema de gestión de cooperativas de consumo/es
- Ale Fernandez
- Alex Pentland's Vision for Credit Unions as Vehicles for Data Cooperatives
- Allianza Solidaria
- Allied Community Cooperative
- Allmenda
- Alternative Economy in Catalonia
- Alternative Forms of Common-Interest Communities
- American Technology Worker Cooperatives
- Amin Yosyo on the Smangus Aboriginal Community Labor Cooperative in Taiwan
- Ampliative Art
- Analysis of the Agricultural Cooperative Movement in Greece
- Ann Marie Utratel
- Annemarie Naylor
- Applewood Permaculture Institute
- Are Coops Outdated in a Network Age
- Argentine Worker Cooperatives in Civil Society
- Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives
- Arizmendiarrieta’s Thought on Cooperative Man
- Art of Things
- Asset Transfer Unit
- Associated Labor
- Aurea Social
- Aurea Social/es
- Autonomous Projects of Collective Initiative
B
- Babysitting Cooperative
- Banyan Project
- Basherri/es
- BBC Horizon Documentation on the Mondragon Experiment
- Bees Coop
- Beyond Care Childcare Cooperative
- Bibliography on Cooperative Universities
- Bicycle Cooperative
- Bike Kitchen Bratislava
- Bio Me
- Bio-Soil-Cooperative
- Blake Jones of Namaste Solar on Democratic Energy Cooperatives
- Blogs on Cooperatives
- Boston TechCollective
- Boston Ujima Project
- Bottega21
- Boundary Brewing
- Breadchain Cooperative
- Brian Van Slyke
- Brianna and Nuno on the Stocksy United Artist-Owned Cooperative
- Brighton Energy Co-op
- British Digital Cooperative
- Broadband for the Rural North
- Brooklyn Raga Massive
- Bruno Carballa
- Bruno Roelants
- Buerger Energie Berlin
- Building a Cooperative Country in Wales
- Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth
- Building a Stakeholder Society as an Alternative to the Market and the State
- Building Bottom-Up Finance Solutions for Cooperative Housing in Central and South-Eastern Europe
- Building Man Cooperative
- Business and Employment Cooperatives
- Buurtzorg
C
- Calafou
- Cambridge Commons
- Camille Kerr on Unionized Platform Cooperatives for the Caregiving Industry
- Can We Do It Ourselves
- Canadian Community Investment Network Co-operative
- Candlestick Courier Collective
- Carbon Co-op
- CARD.coop
- Case for Economic Democracy
- CASX
- Catalan Integral Cooperative
- Catalan Integral Cooperative - Governance
- Catholics and Cooperatives
- Cave Co-operative
- CECOSESOLA
- Cera Centre for Co-operative Entrepreneurship
- Characteristics of P2P Networks as Organizations
- Chicagoland Cooperative Ecosystem Coalition
- Christopher Gervais
- Cities Developing Worker Co-ops
- City of Vancouver as Cooperative City
- Clouds Coop
- Co-Cycle
- Co-op Law
- Co-op Models for the Production of Health and Social Services
- Co-op Power
- Co-Operative and Mutual Forms of Ownership and Governance in the Design of Public Services
- Co-operative Land Bank
- Co-operative Legislation and Public Policy
- Co-operative University
- Co-operatives UK
- Co-opoly
- CodeSolid
- CoFed
- Cohousing Directory
- Collaborative Economy as an Opportunity for Cooperatives
- Collective Housing
- Commons and Cooperatives
- Commons Cooperative
- Commons-Oriented Open Cooperative Governance Model
- Community Broadband Network
- Community Care and Transport Cooperative
- Community CarShare
- Community Currency Systems as a Co-operative Option for the Developing World
- Community Food Forest
- Community Investment Cooperatives
- Community Land Partnership
- Community Land Partnership for Rural Housing in Scotland
- Community Shares Unit
- Community-Owned Performing Arts Collectives
- Compilation of Materials on Platform Cooperativism
- Comradery
- Condop
- Consumer-Owned Cooperatives
- Consumers Cooperative
- Convergences and Divergences in the Work of Castoriadis, Olin Wright and Bauwens and Kostakis
- Coomappa Drivers Cooperative - Araraquara Brazil
- Coop 2.0 Model
- Coop des Communs
- Coop DiscoTech
- Coop Law
- Coop Taxi Seoul
- Coopcity
- CoopCycle
- CoopData
- Coopedia Knowledge Base
- Cooperation in the Age of Google
- Cooperation Jackson
- Cooperation Town
- Cooperation Works
- Cooperativa de Consum Ecologic i Responsable El Rial/ca
- Cooperativa Integral Catalana
- Cooperativa Integrale Catalana
- Cooperativa La Fabbrica del Sole
- Cooperative
- Cooperative Accumulation
- Cooperative Activity in Preston
- Cooperative Advantage
- Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States
- Cooperative Alternatives beyond Markets and States
- Cooperative and Mutual Housing
- Cooperative Approaches to Energy, Water and Rail
- Cooperative Auto Network
- Cooperative Banks
- Cooperative Breweries and Pubs
- Cooperative Business Consultants
- Cooperative Business Models for Open Data
- Cooperative Cities in the US
- Cooperative Commonwealth
- Cooperative Community Fund
- Cooperative Consortia
- Cooperative Crypto-Credit Banking Platform
- Cooperative Development Institute
- Cooperative Development Services
- Cooperative Economics
- Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York
- Cooperative Ecosystem in Wales
- Cooperative Enterprise as an Antimonopoly Strategy
- Cooperative Enterprise Hub
- Cooperative Federalism versus Cooperative Individualism
- Cooperative Fermentation
- Cooperative Finance
- Cooperative Firms as a New Mode of Production
- Cooperative Fund of New England
- Cooperative Housing
- Cooperative Housing in Egypt
- Cooperative Housing in Wales
- Cooperative Housing in Zurich
- Cooperative Identity Provider
- Cooperative Micro Ownership
- Cooperative Movement in Century 21
- Cooperative Networks
- Cooperative Networks in the Italian Economy
- Cooperative Online Labor Brokerages and Marketplaces
- Cooperative Place Making and the Capturing of Land value for 21st Century Garden Cities
- Cooperative Platforms in a European Landscape
- Cooperative Platforms in Europe
- Cooperative Principal
- Cooperative Production
- Cooperative Research Centers
- Cooperative Ride-Hailing
- Cooperative Ridesharing and Taxi Platforms
- Cooperative Schools
- Cooperative Societies Models
- Cooperative Strategy for Distributed Renewable Energy
- Cooperative Supermarkets
- Cooperative Taxi Platforms and Apps
- Cooperative Technologists
- Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy
- Cooperative UK - Map
- Cooperative Universities
- Cooperatively Minded Cryptocurrencies
- Cooperatively Owned Wind Turbines in Denmark
- Cooperatively-Owned Mobile Home Parks
- Cooperatives
- Cooperatives - Discussion
- Cooperatives Are Not a Viable Strategy Against Capitalism
- Cooperatives Europe