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  1. Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  2. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  3. Building Sustainable Communities
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  4. Co-operative Co-ownership Corporations:Legislative Proposals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
  5. The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
  6. Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  7. The Co-operative Union of Canada
    Organization profile published 1976
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 1976
    An educational and promotional organization for all cooperative projects.
  8. Co-operatives Bite back! The return of the co-op
    New Internationalist June 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2004
  9. Directory of Housing Co-operatives and Resource Groups
    Periodical profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  10. For Our Common Future
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  11. How to Start a Co-operative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  12. Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
  13. 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.
  14. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
  15. New Age Business
    Community Corporations That Work
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  16. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  17. 1978 Directory of International Communities, Cooperatives, Collectives and Communes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  18. No Bosses Here!
    A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  19. Organizing in a Small Town
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
  20. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  21. Starting a Worker Co-operative
    An Introduction
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  22. A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
    Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  23. Worker Co-operatives
    An Introduction
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1985
  24. Worker Cooperatives in America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  25. Workers' Self-Management in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984

Experts on Co-operatives in the Sources Directory

  1. Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
  2. Zatoun
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