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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. Alternative Americas
    An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  2. Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework’s insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
  3. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
  4. Banking on the Grass Roots
    Cooperatives in global development

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  5. Building Sustainable Communities
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1989
    The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking.
  6. Canada's Social Economy
    Co-Operatives, Non-Profits, and Other Community Enterprises

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  7. Co-operative Co-ownership Corporations: Legislative Proposals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  8. The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  9. Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A guide to work co-operatives.
  10. The Co-operative Movement on the Prairies, 1900-1955
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
  11. The Co-operative Union of Canada
    Organization profile published 1976

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1976
    An educational and promotional organization for all cooperative projects.
  12. Co-operatives Bite back! The return of the co-op
    New Internationalist June 2004

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the issues regarding and the basic principles of a co-op. Discussion of the history of the international co-operative movement and information on how to set up a co-op.
  13. Directory of Co-operatives
    Periodical profile published 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  14. Directory of Housing Co-operatives and Resource Groups
    Periodical profile published 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  15. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy u. Capitalism and its by-rpoducts -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing apart in the destruction of our ecosystem.
  16. Equality
    New Internationalist January/February 2004

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at theories on the thought of equality and its progress in society.
  17. For Our Common Future
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
  18. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  19. Guide to Co-operative Alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Hundreds of co-operative ventures throughout North America.
  20. How to Start a Co-operative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An introduction to co-operatives and act as a guide to groups interested in organizing a co-operative.
  21. Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
  22. Intentional Communities
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for intentional Communities including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects.
  23. Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A group of manufacturing, financial and retail enterprises based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest of Spain and abroad which is one of the world's largest worker cooperatives and one important example of workers' self-management.
  24. Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business—a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
  25. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
  26. New Age Business
    Community Corporations That Work

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  27. The New Dawn Story
    An Experiment In Economically-Based Community Development

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
  28. The New Dawn Story.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1981
  29. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  30. 1978 Directory of International Communities, Cooperatives, Collectives and Communes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  31. No Bosses Here!
    A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
  32. Organizing in a Small Town
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
  33. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  34. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  35. The Role Co-operatives in Childcare
    Role des cooperatives dans le secteur de la garde d'enfants

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  36. Starting a Worker Co-operative
    An Introduction

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  37. A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
    Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1989
    Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
  38. Worker Co-operatives
    An Introduction

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985
  39. Worker Cooperatives in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
  40. Workers' Self-Management in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984

Experts on Co-operatives in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Co-operative Association
  2. Zatoun



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