Agaric

, 94–95

Agricultural producer cooperatives

, 132

Alienation (see also Severance)

, 130–131, 150

All Japan Free Trade Union

, 109–110

Amicus Purchasing Co-op

, 88

Amicus Solar Cooperative

, 88

Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA)

, 47–48

Association of Cooperative Educators (ACE)

, 47–48

Associationism

, 113

Autogestión/Self-management

, 103

Autonomy

, 23, 87–88, 100–101, 122

Benefit (“B”) corporations

, 159

Bicameralism

, 42

Black Lives Matter

, 46

Blockchain

, 95

Buen Vivir (see also Good Life)

, 126–127

Builders Labourers Federation

, 166–167

Bureaucracy

, 63–64

Burley Design Cooperative

, 14

Business failure/bankruptcy

, 83, 89–91

C Factor

, 12, 87, 117, 120

Capital

, 25–26, 82

Capitalism

, 5, 27–28, 40–41, 82, 84, 147, 205

Carbon trading

, 145–146

Careforce

, 27–28

Care work

, 194

Catholic Action

, 190–191

CECOSESOLA

, 62–63, 115–116

Change, first- and second order

, 91

Chicago Food Policy Action Council

, 134–135

ChiFresh

, 45, 134–135

Chipukizi Voice of Drama

, 181–182

Class (socio-economic)

, 50–51, 55

Climate change/disruption/crisis

, 142–148

Co-op Convert

, 49–50

Colonial tea cooperatives

, 113

Commoning

, 5, 39, 70–71, 128, 205

Commons

, 70–73

Communication and language

, 176–177

Communism

, 113

Community/communities

, 17, 109, 138

concept and meanings

, 110–113

concern for and values of

, 23, 122

forms of

, 110–113

principles

, 28–30

society, and state

, 113

solidarity

, 115–121

Community Pharmacy

, 136–139

Community Purchasing Alliance Cooperative

, 112

Compañerismo

, 119, 126

Comparte network

, 199

Competition

, 5, 12, 83, 100–101

economic or market

, 87–99

general

, 81–84

worker cooperatives and competition

, 87–99

Confédération des Sindicats Nationaux (CSN)

, 55

Conflict management/resolution

, 48, 138

Conscientization

, 124–125, 197–198

Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca

, 168--169

Consensus

, 14–15, 36, 58

Consumer

, 17, 152

Consumer-citizens

, 196

Consumerism

, 202–203

Co-op Exchange

, 203–204

Cooperation among cooperatives (or Intercooperation)

, 23

Cooperation Jackson

, 28–29, 56–57

Cooperativa Chilavert Artes Gráficas

, 120–121

Cooperativa Valle dei Cavalieri

, 161

Cooperative ecology

, 141, 168

crisis, urgency, and grand delusion

, 142–148

limits of growth framework

, 157–158

severance

, 149–157

stakeholders

, 158–163

Cooperative education (See Education)

Cooperative games

, 180

Cooperative innovation (See Innovation)

Cooperative life cycle

, 59

Cooperative Power Australia

, 166–167

Cooperative solution, the

, 11–15

Cooperatives/Co-ops

, 11–12, 35, 78, 141

of Activity and Employment (CAEs)

, 79

advantage

, 11

clusters

, 17

conversions

, 55

criteria for cooperative society

, 170

diversity, inclusion, and power in

, 46–50

educators

, 182

financial/mutual

, 17

health

, 135–138

hybrid

, 68–69

independence

, 23

measures and outcomes

, 13

multistakeholder

, 17, 68, 70, 160

myths

, 13–15

networks

, 15, 31, 33

platform

, 17, 93–94, 99

principles

, 22–23, 30

social

, 69–70

and sustainability

, 3–4

of trust

, 121

types and prevalence of

, 17

Cooperativised Activity Groups (CAGs)

, 72

Cooperativism

, 25, 27, 39, 204–205

bridging gaps

, 186–188

communicating

, 182–188

platform

, 99

Cooperazione Finanza Impresa

, 55

Coopitalism

, 90

Corporate concentration (of industries)

, 45–46

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

, 158–159

COVID-19 Mutual Aid UK

COVID-19 pandemic

, 2–3, 5, 120–121, 134–135, 137–138, 189

Creative Commons licenses

, 79–80

Creative destruction

, 82–83, 89

Crises, contemporary, multidimensional

, 2, 142, 148

Culture(s)

, 79, 100, 124, 198

Decentralization

, 98–99

Declaration of Nyéléni

, 131

Dematerialization

, 94, 98–99, 150–151, 155

Democracy

, 3–4, 36, 38, 73–74

contemporary

, 37

crisis of

, 36–37

democratic commitments

, 58

democratic member control

, 23

economic

, 37

grassroots (bottom up)

, 37–38

meanings of

, 42

practice of

, 198

spillover effects

, 43

state and politics

, 37, 40, 113

union and worker co-op

, 50–57

work and workplace

, 40, 50, 57, 63, 183

Democracy at Work Initiative (DAWI)

, 183, 199

Demutualization

, 14–15

Denial, of problems

, 144

Deontological ethics

, 58

Dialogue

, 87–88, 126–127, 176–177, 184, 191–192

Digital nomads

, 9

Distributed co-operative organization (DisCO)

, 71–72, 95, 194

Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI), and DEIJ or JEDI (including Justice)

, 46–48, 50

inclusion in cooperatives

, 46–50

inclusive organizations

, 68–73

DoorDash

, 93–94

Doughnut economic and societal model

, 86, 183–184

Drivers Cooperative

, 94–95

Earthworker Cooperatives

, 106, 166–168

Earthworker Energy Manufacturing Cooperative

, 166–167

Eco-efficiency

, 145–146

Ecological embeddedness

, 164–168

Economic neo-liberalism

, 147

Economic health

, 154–155

Economy and society (inter-relationships)

, 146, 148, 157

Ed.Coop website

, 201–202

Education

, 123

accompañamiento

, 191–192

apprenticeship

, 175

Base Communities

, 197--198

cooperative

, 173, 175, 180

democratic

, 23, 188, 195

formal, informal, non-formal, tacit

, 175–176, 199

learning-by-doing

, 192, 200

learning to democratize power

, 188–195

participatory

, 178, 180, 198

peer-to-peer

, 199–200

play

, 180

popular

, 191

struggle

, 199–200

transforming relationships

, 192–195

Educators

, 177

Employee ownership trusts

, 17

Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)

, 17, 48–49

Enslavement

, 121

Entrepreneurs

, 77

Entrepreneurship (see also Social entrepreneurship)

, 75–76, 80, 107

Environment, crisis

, 3

Environmental stewardship

, 162–163

Equal Exchange

, 102, 131–132, 195, 202

Equity, financial

, 3–4

shared

, 48

Eva Coop

, 95

Extinction Rebellion

, 144–145

Facebook (Meta)

, 93–94, 99

Facilitation

, 67, 105–106, 174, 177–178, 180, 185–186

Fair Shares

, 48–49

FairBnB

, 94–95

Farm worker cooperatives

, 133

Federation of Producer Cooperatives of Uruguay (FCPU)

, 55

Feminist economics and organizational theory

, 137–138

FemProcomuns

, 72–73, 138–139

Fenwick Weavers’ Society

, 16

Fifth Season Cooperative

, 160

Food access

, 134

Food sovereignty

, 130–135

Fossil fuel companies

, 93

4 Corners Invents!

, 79

Fueros

, 44–45

Full Barrel Cooperative Brewery

, 95

Fuorimercato

, 153

Games, cooperative (see also Education)

, 180

Genocide

, 91, 121

Genuine Progress Indicators (GPIs)

, 155–156

Gig economy

, 8–9

Gini Coefficient of economic in/equality

, 156–157

Global Youth Network

, 187–188

Good life (See also Buen Vivir)

, 126–138

food sovereignty

, 130–135

health and well-being

, 135–138

Governance

, 11, 42

“Green Ban” actions

, 166–167

Green product lines

, 145–146

Gross domestic product (GDP)

, 84–85

Growth

, 84

grand delusion

, 142–148

limits of growth framework, de-growth, green growth, post-growth

, 155, 157–158

Guggenheim effect

, 78

Happiness/flourishing/eudaimonia

, 126–127

Health and well-being

, 135–138

Hierarchical distance (see also Bureaucracy)

, 42–43

Housing and land

, 17

Human rights and workers’ rights

, 40–41, 50–51

Identity

, 5, 112, 203

Imagine 2012 conference

, 30, 162–163

Imperialism and colonialism

, 39

In-groups, out-groups

, 111

Indigenous co-ops and culture

, 128

Industrial Commons

, 26

Information

, 23, 87–88, 113, 177–178

Innovation

, 75, 107

capitalist innovation

, 80–84

change and

, 91

cooperative innovation

, 99–106

popular images

, 76–79

social, social transformational

, 101–102

terminology

, 79–80

International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)

, 11, 22

Global Youth Network

, 187–188

seven principles

, 23

Intersectionality

, 116

Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing

, 78

Japan Workers Collective Network (WCNJ)

, 199

Japan Workers Cooperative Union (JWCU)

, 39, 109–110, 199

Knights of Labor

, 51, 116

Kola Nut Collaborative of Chicago

, 105–106

Kwanzaa principles

, 28

Labor, organized (see also Unions)

, 6, 55

Laissez-faire market model

, 146

Language

, 84, 186–187

Leadership

, 174, 176, 188

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (LEINN)

, 173, 176

Limited liability corporations (LLCs)

, 17

Livelihood work

, 71, 194

Loomio

, 95, 98

Love is Love Cooperative Farm

, 133

Love work

, 71, 194

Mandela Grocery Cooperative

, 152

Market pressure

, 27–28, 205

Markets

, 100, 163

MayFirst.coop

, 186–187

Mediating organizations

, 38

Medical community

, 110

Meet.Coop

, 73, 123

MeToo movement

, 46

Member economic participation

, 23

Membership fee

, 23

Menda cooperative village

, 37–38

Milestone Cooperative Association

, 132

Moeda (MDA)

, 95

Mondragón cooperatives

, 42, 51–52, 173–174

Alecop

, 173–174

Arizmendiarrieta/Arizmendi

, 107

Fagor Electrodomésticos (FED)

, 89, 100

Lagun-Aro system

, 90–91

Mondragón Accords

, 80

Mondragón Corporation

, 157

Mondragón culture and history

Mondragón principles

, 25–26

Mondragón Team Academy

, 101

Otalora Training Center

, 173--174

Polytechnical School

, 173--174

voting at

, 60

Movement degeneration

, 55

Movimiento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)

, 153

Multi-localization

, 90

Mutual aid

, 5, 16, 105–106, 137–138, 168–169

NAACP

, 190

Namasté Solar cooperative

, 88, 202

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)

, 131–132

National Revolutionary Union of Euzkadi Workers (SNRTE)

, 66–67

Neo-liberal economic policy

, 103

Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC)

, 31–32

Networks

, 64

centralized, decentralized and distributed

, 98–99

deep networking

, 166

embeddedness

, 164–168

organizational forms and structures

, 98–99

New cooperativism

, 102–103, 107–108

features

, 103

timelines and ruptures

, 104–106

New Era Windows

, 53

New Roots Cooperative Farm

, 133

Next Green Cooperative

, 165--166

Occupy movement

, 5, 43–44

Ohio Employee Ownership Center

, 49–50

Oneida Community

, 80

Open Collective

, 95, 179–180

Open Food Network

, 94–95

Oppression (see also DEI, DEIJ)

, 80, 121

Organagardens Cooperative

, 164–165

Organizational frameworks

, 150

Organizational studies

, 150

Organizational theory

, 150, 164

Organopónicos

, 59–60, 164

Pacific Asia Resource Center (PARC)

, 121

Paris Commune of 1871

, 113

Participation

, 10, 14–15

deep

, 195–204

employee/worker

, 178–179

equitable

, 42–43

informed

, 42–43

work-based (see also Democracy, work)

, 42–43

Participatory-democratic consciousness

, 198

Platform Cooperative Consortium (PCC)

, 174

Plywood cooperatives

, 43

Political consumption (see also Consumer, Consumerism)

, 152–153

Post-industrial

, 150–151

Power

, 38

power over, power with

, 38

Precarity

, 8–9, 131

Progress

, 79, 84, 143, 154, 157

Quilombos

, 16

Rainbow Grocery

, 152

Redgum Cleaning Cooperative

, 166–167

Relational/relationship emphasis

, 112

Republic Windows and Doors (See also New Era Windows)

, 53

Resilience

, 10, 127, 141, 163–165, 168

Resilient society, criteria for

, 170

RESOURCE cooperative

, 151–152, 202

Restoration/restorative

, 170

RiMaflow

, 153

Rochdale Pioneers

, 22

Rockhound community

, 110

Rojava Cooperatives

, 39

Role playing; Live Action Role-Playing (LARP)

, 180

Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs)

, 59–60

Rural cooperatives

, 186–187, 199

Russian Revolution of 1917

, 113

SACMI Imola S.C.

, 78

Satoyama

, 165

Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO)

, 92

Scaling out versus scaling up

, 88

Science fiction

, 80

School Strike for Climate

, 184

Second-tier cooperatives

, 17

Secure Scuttlebutt

, 95, 98–99

Severance (see also Alienation)

, 149–157

Shared ownership

, 48–49

Sharing economy

, 93–94

Social capital

, 44, 112–113

Social council

, 56–57

Social economy, social and solidarity economy (SSE)

, 126, 163

Social entrepreneurs

, 93

Social entrepreneurship

, 43–44, 75, 92–93

Social innovation

, 92–93

Social justice

, 103, 186

Social movements

, 71, 102–103, 116–117, 125, 164–165

Social networks

, 59–60, 88, 113

Social reproduction and change (see also Values change)

, 193–194

Social solidarity

, 2–3, 75–76

Social transformation

, 10, 25, 100–101, 126, 146

Social.Coop

, 73, 95

Socialism

, 40–41, 113

Socialization

, 105–106, 193–194, 200

Sociedades Anónimas Laborales (SAL)

, 17

Società Anonima Cooperativa Meccanici Imola (SACMI)

, 78

Société coopérative d’intérêt collectif (SCIC)

, 69–70

Sociocracy

, 67

Socio-technical systems

, 40

Solidarity

, 3–4, 115–118, 121, 136

C-Factor

, 117–120

circles of community

, 121–126

concept and meanings

, 115–121

economic

, 75–76

economy/ economía solidaria

, 30, 126

trust

, 120–121

Solidarity NYC

, 186

South Korean grassroots democracy movement

, 197–198

Sovereignty of Labor

, 25–26

Space race

, 77, 83–84

Stakeholders

, 158–163

solidarities and networks

, 162–163

theory

, 160

Storytelling and narrative

, 185

Strong and weak ties

, 113

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

, 190–191

Sunrise Movement

, 145

Surveillance, surveillance capitalism, and surveillance society

, 93–94

Sustainability

, 3–4, 35, 153, 183–184

Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG)

, 148, 202

Sustainable development

, 145–146

Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)

, 92–93, 185

TaskRabbit

, 93–94

Tazebaez (TZBZ)

, 174

Teams, self-directed or semi-autonomous

, 66–67

Teleological ethics/consequentialism

, 58

There is no alternative (TINA)

, 84

Third-tier cooperatives

, 17

Tiimi Akatemia

, 176

Time, perspectives on

, 84

Tomoiku

, 199

Tourne-Sol cooperative farm

, 133

Trade

Alternative Trade Organizations/Networks

, 5, 106, 205

Fair Trade

, 95

Free Trade

, 168

TRADOC

, 66–67

Training (See also Education)

, 23

Transition Town movement

, 28

Triple Bottom Line

, 159

Trust, on multiple societal levels

, 120–121

Uber

, 93–95

Ubuntu

, 16

UN Social Development Goals (SDGs)

, 161, 183–184

Unicorn Grocery

, 67, 125–126, 133–134, 138–139

Unions, labor (see also Labor, organized)

, 22, 52

Union assistance

, 55

Union worker co-ops

, 17, 56–57

United Electrical union (UE union)

, 53

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

, 37

University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives

, 47–48, 199

Urban Growers Collective

, 134–135

URSSA S. Cooperativa

, 78

US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC)

, 182

Utopian communities

, 80

Values-based bonds

, 110–111

Values-driven organizations

, 46, 152

Values change (see also Social reproduction and change)

, 26–28

Vermont Employee Ownership Center (VEOC)

, 49–50, 95

Vermont Real Estate Co-op

, 95

Via Campesina, la

, 131

Virtual communities

, 123

Voluntary and open membership

, 23

Voluntary servitude

, 193–194

War

, 121

Wealth inequalities

, 45

White privilege and supremacy

, 47

Wikimedia Commons website

, 70–71

Worcester Youth Cooperatives (WYC)

, 189

Dare to Co-op Academy

, 189

Work

, 6–8, 109–110

meaning

, 9–10

maximizing participation at work by design

, 63–67

types and levels of participation at

, 41

Worker cooperatives (WC)

, 21, 35, 37–38, 48, 75–76, 89, 91, 141, 192, 205

and competition

, 87–99

democracy

, 50–57

networks

, 31–33

origins and range of

, 15–22

Worker recuperated enterprises/Empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (see also Cooperatives, conversions; Cooperatives, work and workplace)

, 53

Worker-shareholder cooperatives (WSCs)

, 17

Working people

, 10, 21, 103

Xerox PARC design

, 76

Yomol A´tel

, 128, 203

Young Negroes’ Cooperative League (YNCL)

, 190

Zanon/FaSinPat

, 200

Zapatista movement

, 39, 113