Josh Davis lives and works in Hot Springs, Montana. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Montana in 2004. In 2005, he began a project in conjunction with villagers in Challing, Nepal, to build a free community school. Josh became aware of worker cooperatives during the Occupy movement in 2011, and eventually stumbled across Grassroots Economic Organizing, where he currently works as the Content Manager, helping to spread information to help build a better, more just economy.
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Thinking as a movement: Why the co-op movement needs open debate to thrive
Open, transparent debate is essential for the cooperative movement. Yet in many co-ops, criticism stays private, and praise goes public, leaving members in the dark, weakening collective decision-making, and enabling bad ideas and bad actors to proliferate.
May 26, 2026
Thinking as a Movement
We should never forget that the point of our movement is to place economic power into the hands of those who do not currently possess it, which necessarily entails taking power away from those who have it now.
January 20, 2022
Against the Ecosystem
Lately, I’ve been mulling over what I think is a better metaphor for the cooperative movement, or rather, a better metaphor for what I hope to see the cooperative movement become: not an ecosystem, but an organism. Not a collection of disparate entities occupying the same space, each working for its own survival, but rather a single entity with many parts and pieces that play different roles in the functioning and health of the larger whole; a whole which in turn supports each of its constituent parts.
November 18, 2019
Reflections on “A Letter from Mondragon”
In a "letter from Mondragon", recently published by on the Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative (CUCI) website, Armin Isasti, makes some incisive and thought-provoking observations that I think we in the worker co-op movement would do well to consider.
November 23, 2016
Some 401(k) Caveats
While it’s great to see the staff at the Federation of Worker Cooperatives helping worker co-ops harness the power of cooperation in their benefits packages, there are a number of aspects of the 401(k) model of retirement saving that I think should be cause for concern among cooperators.
September 6, 2016
Basic Income vs. Job Guarantee
Unlike a UBI, a Job Guarantee (JG) is not an untested policy in our country.
August 12, 2016
