Ownership & Business Models as Social & Ideological Battlefields
The creation of what we now call capitalism, with its deification of private property and free…markets, has been a conscious project spanning a number of centuries.
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A Fair Share: Worker Cooperatives and the Growth of Shared Capitalism
A growing number of business owners are making the decision to turn over ownership to their employees.
What is the Commons Transition? (According to the Sustainable Economies Law Center)
To me, a commons transition speaks to the process of communities progressively controlling and self-governing more and more of their collective resources, by and for themselves and future generations.
How One Neighborhood in Seoul Sparked a Movement of Urban Villages
What began as a childcare coop in Seoul, South Korea has grown into a cooperative, urban village and sparked a national movement of urban villages.
$5 Million for Co-op Development in Madison
I have to say that of all the different political and social organizations that I have been involved with recently, the co-op groups are easily the youngest, sharpest and most energized groups around.
Co-operative Commonwealth: De-commodifying Land and Money Part 3
Community Land Trusts, JAK, CoopHab and the WiR Co-operative Bank demonstrate today that there are viable ways to deliver access to land and money as a democratic commons that eliminates usury.
Cooperatives and the Next Clothing Industry
Last October, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (the SELC) created an event to discuss the opportunities that our local clothing economy can create…
Co-operative Commonwealth: Decommodifying Land and Money, Part 2
Usury is little discussed today but it is crucial in policy terms.
P6: Enacting Cooperative Values
Principle Six (P6) provides a pathway for everyday people to use our cooperatively owned community institutions to move money into the hands of small, local, and cooperative businesses.
Co-operative Commonwealth: Decommodifying Land and Money, Part 1
Access to land and the cost of that access are essential to the provision of affordable housing. Likewise, access to money, and the cost of that access, are issues fundamental to economic health.
The Promise of “Open Co-operativism”
Is it possible to imagine a new sort of synthesis or synergy between the emerging peer production and commons movement on the one hand, and growing, innovative elements of the co-operative and solidarity economy movements on the other?
What is the “Social Economy”?
The social economy is composed of civil organizations and networks that are driven by the principles of reciprocity and mutuality in service to the common good – usually through the social control of capital.
