Christopher Michael

For those who have invested substantial amounts of time and effort in founding or growing a worker cooperative, some natural questions arise.

How, then, do we go about democratizing businesses and transforming jobs? What is worker cooperative development?

It may be that one of the immediate successes of the Workers Diner project was to inspire the crowdfinancing provisions of the JOBS Act, federal legislation that intends to lower regulatory hurdles for online direct public offerings and facilitate investments from (and to) Main Street.