Best products from r/cooperatives
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1. Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital
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8. The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organisational Democracy and Participation (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)
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14. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
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- Annealing Point ------560℃
- Linear Coefficient of Expansion------ 32×10-7/℃
- Softening Point------820℃
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17. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy Book 1)
- Premium and authentic white Basmati rice from the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, 20lb bag
- Long and fluffy grain, naturally aromatic and aged over 12 months for the perfect non-sticky texture and a delicate, sweet flavor.
- The best basmati rice for curries, pilafs, stir-fries, or as a side on it’s own, is ready in about 15 – 20 minutes
- Sourced, grown, harvested, and cared for with the highest level of integrity and expertise from local growers in regions that are renowned for producing the finest crops, ensuring a consistent product quality
- Royal Basmati rice nutrition overview: vegan, non-GMO, naturally gluten-free, kosher, Halal, non-fat
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1. Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital
- Used Book in Good Condition
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▼ Read Reddit mentions2. After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)
- Rowman Littlefield Publishers
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▼ Read Reddit mentions3. Putting Democracy to Work: A Practical Guide for Starting and Managing Worker-Owned Businesses
- Used Book in Good Condition
Features:
▼ Read Reddit mentions4. America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy, 2nd Edition
Used Book in Good Condition
▼ Read Reddit mentions5. Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina
Used Book in Good Condition
▼ Read Reddit mentions6. Making Mondragón: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports)
Used Book in Good Condition
▼ Read Reddit mentions8. The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organisational Democracy and Participation (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)
Used Book in Good Condition
▼ Read Reddit mentions9. Governing the Firm: Workers' Control in Theory and Practice
Used Book in Good Condition
▼ Read Reddit mentions10. Cooperatives and Local Development: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century
Used Book in Good Condition
▼ Read Reddit mentions14. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
- Be Made From G3.3 Borosilicate Glass
- Annealing Point ------560℃
- Linear Coefficient of Expansion------ 32×10-7/℃
- Softening Point------820℃
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▼ Read Reddit mentions15. Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
- Used Book in Good Condition
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▼ Read Reddit mentions17. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy Book 1)
- Premium and authentic white Basmati rice from the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, 20lb bag
- Long and fluffy grain, naturally aromatic and aged over 12 months for the perfect non-sticky texture and a delicate, sweet flavor.
- The best basmati rice for curries, pilafs, stir-fries, or as a side on it’s own, is ready in about 15 – 20 minutes
- Sourced, grown, harvested, and cared for with the highest level of integrity and expertise from local growers in regions that are renowned for producing the finest crops, ensuring a consistent product quality
- Royal Basmati rice nutrition overview: vegan, non-GMO, naturally gluten-free, kosher, Halal, non-fat
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John Curl's Humanizing the Economy is solid, and the beginning and final chapters get into some interesting theoretical territory.
Pretty much anything by Brett Fairbairn, but this essay is a good place to start.
Though he passed on a few years ago, I believe Ian MacPherson was one of the 20th century's greatest scholars of cooperativism. Start with this collection of essays that he curated.
Finally, if you're interested in credit unions, here's a list of book reviews I wrote while in grad school.
Wow. So there's a lot here - are you asking for purely written books or are websites OK?
First, look in your local bookstore! That being said, Amazon has a ton (these are ones I've read):
Gar Alperovitz - America Beyond Capitalism
William Whyte - Making Mondragon
Marina Sitrin - Horizontalism
Frank T Adams - Putting Democracy to Work
Encrico Masseti - Coop: Made in the USA
Seymour Melman - After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy
David Schweickart - After Capitalism
Also, take a look at this PDF on Tech Worker coops which I contributed to.
Amazon has a bunch I haven't read.
Websites (which list quite a few books/articles relevant here):
http://usworker.coop/education
http://usworker.coop/faceted_search/
http://www.american.coop/
http://american.coop/node/119
http://www.geo.coop/
http://www.geo.coop/replication-of-arizmendi
And finally, the article that got me started on the road to cooperating:
A Cooperative Manifesto by Tim Huet.
Films - there are a lot, but the only ones that are easy to get a hold of are:
The Take
Capitalism: A Love Story - though this only has a small portion on coops and some more in the extras
Some More:
This Way Out
Shift Change - not out yet but based on the trailer it looks off the hook.
Argentina Turning Around
Governing The Firm
Cooperatives and Local Development
Humanizing the Economy
The Cooperative Workplace
The above books are useful if you are looking for a wide range of opinions and solid information on cooperatives. Some of them are more of "yay, cooperatives!" Whereas others are more academic discourses on cooperatives and their challenges.
Hope this is helpful.
None. Do NOT use Robert's Rules. It's AWFUL. It encourages excessive bureaucracy and fundamentally creates partisanship. It requires that people start discussion with proposals and then take sides for or against.
https://www.guidestar.org/rxa/news/articles/2008/going-for-consensus-not-roberts-rules.aspx
Go get the great book How To Make Meetings Work, cheap used copies available: http://amzn.com/0425138704/?tag=wolftune-20
Otherwise search around for facilitation and consensus.
Use a meeting process where you have a neutral facilitator and you make decisions by consensus except with a fallback vote option so that nobody has the power to hold things up when there's no consensus.
Consider https://www.nasco.coop/resources/kwunsensus
Seriously, do NOT use Robert's Rules!! Do you want your co-op to become as dysfunctional as the U.S. Congress‽
I can't say this strongly enough.