cooperatives

Suma Wholefoods, Elland, Yorkshire, UK

10 September 2011

Cooperatives are democratic organizations as far as their members go but are often not very democratic in their governance of workers, particularly when the workers are a whole different group of people from their members. And members are, after all, investors. Worker-owned businesses may also be as autocratic in their governance as the most hierarchical [...]

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Co-Operatives UK

8 September 2011

Co-operatives UK is the national trade association in the United Kingdom that campaigns for co-operation and works to promote, develop, and unite co-operative enterprises that in the UK include High Street consumer-owned co-operatives to pubs and football clubs, healthcare to agriculture, credit unions to community owned shops, pubs to public relations, wind farms to web [...]

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