You can buy Cooperatives at Work at your local independent bookstore.
For example: Narrow Gauge Book Co-op, in Alamosa, Colorado, or Poor Richards Books and Gifts, in Colorado Springs.
Journal of Cooperative Studies Review
“Although written by six authors from across two continents, this is a seamless and free flowing book… fully referenced, thought provoking, academic…but…also an easy and engaging read.
Under six chapter headings (crises and opportunities, democracy equity and justice, innovation to transformation, community to solidarity, co-operative ecology, and co-operative education), they range across every aspect imaginable of the worker co-operative movement. In truth, this is a veritable smorgasbord of everything you wanted to know about worker co-operatives but were too afraid to ask.”
See the rest of Alex Bird’s review here: https://www.ukscs.coop/pages/journal-of-co-operative-studies-57-1-59-60
First Prize!
“I am so pleased and very honored to inform you all that the Selection Committee for the Institute’s Joyce Rothschild Book Prize has awarded your book, Cooperatives at Work, the First Prize!
There were many entries competing from all over the country and the world, so this is a real and serious win, indeed, and distinguished and unique recognition for your book.
A job well done and well appreciated by the judges who were also a nationally representative group of experts!
Congratulations!”
Joseph R. Blasi
J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor and Director
Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations
In good company!
Nice to be on the Coop Bookshelf of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. https://www.usworker.coop/resources/coop-bookshelf/
Ohio Employee Ownership Center interviews George Cheney
In this episode we sit down with George Cheney of the University of Colorado and talk about a recent book he co-authored titled Cooperatives at Work which takes cooperatives marginality head on and provides a range of case studies of successful cooperative organizations as well as practical lessons and strategies to grow the sector. In our interview we talk about how George’s long career of researching employee ownership and cooperatives and what he and his co-authors found while writing the book including the unlevel playing field worker cooperatives in the US face, how technological change may grow or constrain cooperative development, and the relationship between worker cooperatives, sustainability, and the environment.
Cooperatives at Work at Congress in Toronto
Marcelo Vieta, Emi Do, and Matt Noyes will be presenting and discussing our book at two conferences in Toronto the week of May 29th-June 3rd. Look for us at the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation on Wednesday, May 31st and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, on Friday, June 2nd:
5/31/23 — Democratizing and Cooperativizing Work: Moving Beyond Crises By Reorganizing the Economy
6/2/23 — Learning Democracy at and for Work: The Educative Dimensions of Worker Cooperatives, Self-Managed Workplaces, and Social Economy Organisations (a CASAE symposium)
For more info:
CASC: http://www.coopresearch.coop/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CASC_2023Conference_FinalProgram.pdf
CASAE: https://www.casae-aceea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023_CASAE_Prog_20230509.pdf
Collaboration in action: Success stories of cooperative business
Where are the best examples of collaboration at work found?
In Cooperatives at Work we argue that worker cooperatives are uniquely suited to collaboration. Here, cooperation is baked into the structure and culture of the enterprise in economic incentives, HR practices, and the workplace culture…
See the rest here: https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/comment/collaboration-in-action-success-stories-of-cooperative-business
“Come together for better business”
“With people’s finances coming under as much pressure as the environment, Marcelo Vieta and George Cheney explore whether worker cooperatives are the answer.”
The European magazine has published this article based on our book.
Japan Robert Owen Association
The Japan Robert Owen Association, of which I am a member, kindly published this short piece I wrote about Cooperatives at Work in Volume 47 of their journal (ロバアト・オウエン協会年報〈47〉2023 年 3 月).
Solidarity Hall book launch event
Thanks for Elias Crim, of Solidarity Hall, for organizing this event!
“It’s time to celebrate some co-op success stories, say the authors of this excellent co-written study.
For too long, cooperatives have been considered marginal players in the global economy, and as unrealistic venues for the aspirations of new and experienced members of the labor force. This marginalization shows in business, municipal and legal discussions, and curricula, where cooperative structures are rarely mentioned, let alone presented as viable options.
Cooperatives at Work presents a range of success stories in employee ownership and worker owned-and-governed cooperatives. The authors further show how such firms embody important and highly contested ideals of democracy, shared equity, and social transformation. Throughout this volume, the authors present a range of practical lessons, strategies, and resources based on their pioneering, international research.
The authors are George Cheney, Matt Noyes, Emi Do, Marcelo Vieta, Joseba Azkarraga, and Charlie Michel, all experienced practitioners in coop formation and operation.
The Worker Cooperative Movement and Crises of Our Times
@emi and I had a nice chat about Cooperatives at Work with Kevin Lin of Asian Labour Review. (We’re still learning how to give good interviews.) Asian Labour Review is an important new publication.
Cooperatives at Work 