A Brief History of Cooperatives in California

By John Curl, Grassroots Economic Organizing

This year, the US Worker Cooperative National Conference is being held in Los Angeles, California, but it will not be the first time cooperators have converged in the state. As cooperative historian John Curl documents below, California has a long history of cooperatives and collective action of all kinds.

Self-Help by the People: A Short History of Cooperatives in Britain, With a Foray into the United States

By Jim Senter, Resilience.org

This is the story of 175 years of successful self-help, of an international movement that built lasting economic institutions out of the pooled pennies of millions of working people.