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
Autogestión/Self-management
, 103
Autonomy
, 23, 87–88, 100–101, 122
C Factor
, 12, 87, 117, 120
Capitalism
, 5, 27–28, 40–41, 82, 84, 147, 205
CECOSESOLA
, 62–63, 115–116
Change, first- and second order
, 91
Chicago Food Policy Action Council
, 134–135
Chipukizi Voice of Drama
, 181–182
Class (socio-economic)
, 50–51, 55
Climate change/disruption/crisis
, 142–148
Colonial tea cooperatives
, 113
Commoning
, 5, 39, 70–71, 128, 205
Communication and language
, 176–177
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
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
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 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
Corporate concentration (of industries)
, 45–46
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
, 158–159
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
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
Dialogue
, 87–88, 126–127, 176–177, 184, 191–192
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
Doughnut economic and societal model
, 86, 183–184
Drivers Cooperative
, 94–95
Earthworker Cooperatives
, 106, 166–168
Earthworker Energy Manufacturing Cooperative
, 166–167
Ecological embeddedness
, 164–168
Economic neo-liberalism
, 147
Economy and society (inter-relationships)
, 146, 148, 157
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
Employee ownership trusts
, 17
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
, 17, 48–49
Entrepreneurship (see also Social entrepreneurship)
, 75–76, 80, 107
Environmental stewardship
, 162–163
Equal Exchange
, 102, 131–132, 195, 202
Equity, financial
, 3–4
shared
, 48
Extinction Rebellion
, 144–145
Mandela Grocery Cooperative
, 152
Market pressure
, 27–28, 205
Mediating organizations
, 38
Member economic participation
, 23
Menda cooperative village
, 37–38
Milestone Cooperative Association
, 132
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
Mutual aid
, 5, 16, 105–106, 137–138, 168–169
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 Roots Cooperative Farm
, 133
Next Green Cooperative
, 165--166
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
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
Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO)
, 92
Scaling out versus scaling up
, 88
School Strike for Climate
, 184
Second-tier cooperatives
, 17
Secure Scuttlebutt
, 95, 98–99
Severance (see also Alienation)
, 149–157
Social capital
, 44, 112–113
Social economy, social and solidarity economy (SSE)
, 126, 163
Social entrepreneurship
, 43–44, 75, 92–93
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
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
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
South Korean grassroots democracy movement
, 197–198
Sovereignty of Labor
, 25–26
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
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
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 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
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