Cooperatives

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ARTICLES

Hilary Abell, “Work and Pay Better at Green Cleaning Coops,” Kent, OH: Owners at Work, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University, vol. xxi, no.1, Summer 2009, pp. 6-7.
article-abell.pdf (200KB)

Gar Alperovitz and Steve Dubb, "Cooperatives and Public Policy: A Partnership in Progress," Washington, DC: Cooperative Business Journal, Jan/Feb 2010.
article-alperovitz-dubb.pdf (1MB)

Lee Altenberg, "An End to Capitalism: Leland Stanford's Forgotten Vision," Stanford, CA: Stanford Historical Society, Vol. 14, No. 1, winter 1990.
article-altenberg.pdf (2.2MB)

Paul Bradley, “Promoting Economic Security for Manufactured Homeowners in Parks: New Hampshire’s Pioneering Cooperative Model,” Housing Facts and Findings, vol. 7, no. 4 (2005).
article-bradley.pdf (72KB)

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Ryan Briggs, "West Philly's Mariposa Food Co-op Focuses on Outreach Along Baltimore Ave.," Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Weekly, Nov 30, 2011.
article-briggs.pdf (865KB)

Dan Campbell, "Not Just a Job, But a Future," Rural Cooperatives, November-December 2010, pp. 12-16.
article-campbell.pdf (400KB)

Dan Campbell, Ed., "Harvesting the Prairie Wind," Rural COOPERATIVES, Vol. 74, No.6, November/December 2007.
article-campbell-et-al.pdf (5MB)

Erbin Crowell, "The Cooperative Fund of New England," Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Communities & Banking, pp 24-26, fall 2008.
article-crowell.pdf (164KB)

Erbin Crowell, "Mondragón and the United Steelworkers: New opportunity for the co-op and labor movements?," Minneapolis, MN: Cooperative Grocer, Jan/Feb 2010.
article-crowell.pdf (1.8MB)

John Curl, “Living in the U.X.A.,” East Bay Express, vol. 6, no. 5, November 11, 1983.
article-curl.pdf (12MB)

Bob Eckhardt, “Revitalizing Communities through Employee Ownership: A Unique Venture in Cleveland,” Keynote Address, 2009 Ohio Employee Ownership Annual Conference, Kent, OH: Owners at Work, pp. 14-15.
article-eckhardt.pdf (190KB)

Mark A. Edelman and John R. Dunn, "Cooperatives: A Competitive Yardstick for Health Care," Washington, DC: National Cooperative Business Association, Oct 2009.
article-edelman-dunn.pdf (300KB)

William Fischer, “A royalties plan for file sharing,” CNET.com, July 11, 2003.
article-fischer_2.pdf (72KB)

Lydia Gans, “Be Your Own Boss, Join a Collective,” Berkeley Daily Planet, July 29, 2005
article-gans.pdf (70KB)

Cole R. Gustafson, Rabobank’s Offer to Purchase Farm Credit Services of America – A Case Study, Fargo, ND: North Dakota State University, AAE Staff Paper No. 04006, December 2004.
article-gustafson.pdf (230KB)

Brent Hueth and Philippe Marcoul, "Incentive Pay for CEOs in Cooperative Firms," Social Science Research Network, Nov 17, 2008.
article-hueth-marcoul.pdf (140KB)

Paul Hazen. “Statement of Paul Hazen, President, NCBA, Before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition, and Consumer Rights,” hearing on Hospital Group Purchasing: Lowering Costs at the Expense of Patient Health and Medical Innovation? Apr. 30, 2002.
article-hazen02.pdf (125KB)

Traci Hukill, “A World Without Bosses?” Common Ground, July 2, 2005.
article-hukill.pdf (110KB)

Jim Jones, "Group Housing Cooperatives: Alternative to Meet New Needs in a Changing Society," Cooperative Housing Bulletin, fall 2010, pp. 9-12.
article-jones.pdf (440KB)

Nancy Jorgensen, "Alternative Co-ops Are Taking Root," Austin, TX: Daily Yonder, Aug 24, 2010.
article-jorgensen.pdf (1MB)

Nancy Jorgensen, "Co-ops Work to Build a Sustainable Economy," Washington DC: Cooperative Business Journal, May/June 2011
article-jorgensen11.pdf (2.2MB)

John W. Lawrence, “Raising Capital for Worker Cooperatives,” GEO Newsletter, issue 74, April 2007.
article-lawrence.pdf (84KB)

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Andrew Leonard, "A co-op movement grows in Cleveland," Seattle, WA: Grist, Nov 9, 2011. 
article-leonard.pdf (250KB)

Henry M. Levin, "Worker Democracy and Worker Productivity," Social Justice Research, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan 2006.
article-levin.pdf (80KB)

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John Logue and Jacquelyn Yates, "Productivity in cooperatives And Work-owned enterprises: Ownership and participation Make a difference!," Geneva, Switzerland: International Labor Office's World Employment Report 2004-05, 2005.
article-logue-yates.pdf (3.3MB)

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Dianna Marder, "Food co-ops on rise in Philly area," Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept 22, 2011.
article-marder.pdf (1.9MB)

Tom Mattox, "Co-op Turns Neighborhood Loss into Second Store," Minneapolis, MN: Cooperative Grocer, Jan/Feb 2009.
article-mattox.pdf (1.4MB)

Jane Livingston, “U.S. Worker Co-ops Unite!” The Cooperative Grocer: July-August 2004.
www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=534

John Logue, What is an Employee Cooperative? How does it work? An introduction for employee-members, Kent, OH: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, 2006.
article-logue.pdf (35KB)

Riccardo Lotti, Peter Mensing, and Davide Valenti, "A Cooperative Solution," New York, NY: strategy+business, July 17, 2006.
article-lotti-et-al.pdf (37KB)

Wilson Majee, Cooperatives, the brewing pots for social capital! An exploration of social capital creation in a worker-owner homecare cooperative, Milwaukee, WI: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March 2008.
article-majee.pdf (260KB).

Heather McCulloch, "Why the asset-building movement matters for rural cooperatives," Rural Cooperatives, November-December 2010, pp. 24-25.
article-mcculloch10.pdf (175KB)

Tim McGowan, "CBJ Shares a Cup with Mr. Coffee, Rink Dickinson," Cooperative Business Journal, Washington, DC: National Cooperative Business Association, March-April 2007, pp. 6-7.
article-mcgowan.pdf (400KB)

David Mortimer, "Institutions Can Buy Local Food, Too," Second Opinion: Local Alternative Health and Healing, Sept-Oct 2009.
article-mortimer.pdf (10MB)

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), “Commitment to Community – Case Studies: Agriculture Co-ops,” Co-op Month Tool Kit. Washington, D.C.: NCBA: September, 2004.
article-ncba-agriculture.pdf (41KB)

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), “Commitment to Community – Case Studies: Credit Unions,” Co-op Month Tool Kit. Washington, D.C.: NCBA: September 2004.
article-ncba-credit-unions.pdf (51KB)

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), “Commitment to Community – Case Studies: Food Co-ops,” Co-op Month Tool Kit. Washington, D.C.: NCBA: September 2004.
article-ncba-food.pdf (46KB)

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), “Commitment to Community – Case Studies: Housing Co-ops,” Co-op Month Tool Kit. Washington, D.C.: NCBA: September 2004.
article-ncba-housing.pdf (38KB)

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), “Commitment to Community – Case Studies: Rural Electric Co-ops,” Co-op Month Tool Kit. Washington, D.C.: NCBA: September 2004.
article-ncba-rural-electric.pdf (45KB)

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), “Commitment to Community – Case Studies: Telecommunications Co-ops,” Co-op Month Tool Kit. Washington, D.C.: NCBA: September 2004.
article-ncba-telecom.pdf (36KB)

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), “Commitment to Community – Case Studies: Worker Co-ops,” Co-op Month Tool Kit. Washington, D.C.: NCBA: September 2004.
article-ncba-worker.pdf (36KB)

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, “Non-Traditional Analyses of Cooperative Economic Impacts: Preliminary Indicators and a Case Study.” Review of International Co-operation, vol. 97, no. 1 (2004).
article-nembhard.pdf (1.98MB)

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, "Strategies for Recontruction: Models of African-American Community-Based Cooperative Economic Development," Boston, MA: Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, Vol. 12, May 2006.
article-nembhard06.pdf (80KB)

C. E. Pugh, "$3 Billion in Sales by 2020 — What Does It Take?," Minneapolis, MN: Cooperative Grocer, Sep/Oct 2008.
article-pugh.pdf (720KB)

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Lee Romney, "Making the most of cooperation," Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Times, Nov 27, 2011.
article-romney.pdf (120KB)

Rinku Sen, “A New Window on the World,” Colorlines, issue 36, January-February 2007.
article-sen.pdf (76KB)

Marilyn Scholl, “500 Co-ops in 10 Years!” Cooperative Grocer, July-August 2005, pp. 1-3.
article-scholl.pdf (237KB)

Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher, "The Rise of the New Power Co-op Movement," CommonDreams.org, September 29, 2010.
article-smith-brecher.pdf (111KB)

David Thompson, "Remember the Member: Coops are in a capital revolution," Minneapolis, MN: Cooperative Grocer, Jan/Feb 2009.
article-thompson10.pdf (940KB)

David J. Thompson, “Dos Pinos Housing Cooperative in Davis, California from 1986 to 2005: The Long-Term Value of Cooperative Homeownership versus Rental,” Cooperative Housing Journal, National Association of Housing Cooperatives, 2004.
article-thompson.pdf (190KB)

Jacqueline Yates, “The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Begins Construction… Just the First Step,” Owners at Work, Kent, OH: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University, vol xxi, no 1, summer 2009, pp. 16-18.
article-yates-et-al.pdf (1.6MB)

David Van Deusen, Co-ops: Changing Employment in the Green Mountains,” Z Magazine Online, vol. 19, no. 6, June 2006,
article-van-deusen.pdf (100KB)

Kimberly Zeuli and Jamie Radel, “Cooperatives as a Community Development Strategy:
Linking Theory and Practice,” The Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, vol. 35, no. 1, 2005, pp. 43-54.
article-zueli-radel.pdf (180KB)

BOOKS

Michael Fullerton, Ed., What Happened to the Berkeley Co-op? Oakland, CA: The Regents of the University of California, 1992.
book-fullerton.pdf (3.5MB)

Murray Fulton and Brent Hueth (editors), Cooperative Conversions, Failures and Restructurings: Case Studies and Lessons from U.S. and Canadian Agriculture, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Knowledge Impact in Society, 2009.
book-fulton-hueth.pdf (1.8MB)

Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO, An Economy of Hope. Stillwater, PA: GEO, 2000. Book is available for shipping fee at
www.geo.coop/archives/bkorder.htm

Anne Inserra, Maureen Conway, and John Rodat, Cooperative Home Care Associates: A Case Study of a Sectoral Employment Development Approach, Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, February 2002.
book-inserra-et-al.pdf (820KB)

Bernard Marszalek, The Unemployed Exchange Association (UXA) Nineteen Thirties’ Grassroots Economic Development, an introduction to John Curl’s “Living in the U.X.A.,” January 2009.
book-intro-curl-marsalek09.pdf (90KB)

Aaron G. Lehmer, The Promise of Economic Democracy in Practice: The Role of Cooperatives in Sustainable and Equitable Community Development, Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University, May 2003.
book-lehmer.pdf (940KB)

Steve Leikin, The Citizen Producer: The Rise and Fall of Working-Class Cooperatives in the United States, eds. Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
chapter-leiken.pdf (190KB)

E. U. Nadeau and David J. Thompson, Cooperation Works! How People Are Using Cooperative Action to Rebuild Communities and Revitalize the Economy, Rochester, MN: Lone Oak Press, 1996.
book-nadeau-thompson.pdf (6.2MB)

Kimberly A. Zeuli and Robert Cropp, Cooperatives: Principles and practices in the 21st century, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Extension, 2004.
book-zeuli-cropp.pdf (1MB)

PAPERS

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Saioa Arando, Patterns of Entry and Survival of Worker Cooperatives, Donostia, Spain: University of Deusto Department of Economics and Management, July 2006.
paper-arando.pdf (100KB)

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Johnston Birchall and Lou Hammond Ketilson, Resilience of the Cooperative Business Model in Times of Crisis, Geneva, Switzerland: International Labor Organization, Sustainable Enterprise Programme, 2009.
paper-birchall-ketilson.pdf (4.2MB)

John Curl, An Outline History of Cooperatives in the Bay Area and California, July 2010.
paper-curl.pdf (272KB)

Karen Davis, Cooperative Health Care: The Way Forward?, The Commonwealth Fund, From the President, June 22, 2009.
paper-davis.pdf (190KB)

Patrick Develtere, and Ignace Pollet, Co-operatives and Fair-Trade, Leuven, Belgium and Geneva, Switzerland: Higher Institute for Labour Studies and Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperative, February 2005.
paper-develtere-pollet.pdf (380KB)

Catherine Ford and Robert A. Cropp, An Analysis of Machinery Cooperatives for Dairy Farms in the Upper Midwest, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Staff Paper, No 1, September 2002.
paper-ford-cropp.pdf (410KB)

Michelle Freundt, Comparative Study of Smaller-Scale Biodiesel Co-ops, Shelburne, ON, Canada: Power Up Renewable Energy Co-operative, 2007.
paper-freundt.pdf (128KB)

Peter Hough, Succession Planning Using the Worker Co-op Option, Ottawa, ON: Canadian Worker Co-op Federation, March 2005.
paper-hough.pdf (230KB)

International Co-operative Information Centre, “The Massive Movement that Grew from Rochdale’s Tiny Store.” Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, 1994.
www.uwcc.wisc.edu/icic/orgs/ica/pubs/review/
vol-88/movement.html

Greg Lawless and Anne Reynolds, Worker Cooperatives: Case Studies, Key Criteria & Best Practices. Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, July 2004.
paper-lawless.pdf (372KB)

Greg Lawless and Anne Reynolds, Keys to Success for Food Co-op Start Ups in Rural Areas: Four Case Studies, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, October 2005.
paper-lawless-reynolds.pdf (25MB)

Amy M. Nagler, Dale J. Menkhaus and Alan C. Schroeder, Institutions and Agricultural Cooperatives in Wyoming, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Staff Paper, No 4, August 2004.
paper-nagler-et-al.pdf (450KB)

National Cooperative Business Association, Cooperative Businesses In the United States...A 2005 Snapshot, Washington, DC: National Cooperative Month Planning Committee, December 2006.
paper-ncba.pdf (152KB)

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Alternative Asset Building in African American Communities: Wealth Accumulation through Cooperative Ownership, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, Sept. 20, 2006, paper presented for presentation in Phoenix, AZ: CFED Assets Learning Conference—A Lifetime of Assets: Building Families, Communities & Economies.
paper-nembhard.ppt (PowerPoint presentation 67KB)

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, "Cooperative Ownership in the Struggle for African American Economic Empowerment," Humanity and Society, Vol. 28, No. 3, Aug 2004.
paper-nembhard04.pdf (80KB)

Bill Patrie, Creating Co-op Fever: Hard Lessons Learned, Mandan, ND: Common Enterprise Development Corp., 2009.
paper-patrie.pdf (4.4KB)

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John Pencavel, et al. Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms, Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor Discussion Paper No. 2188, Jun 2006.
paper-pencavel-et-al.pdf (230KB)

Lynn Pitman, Cooperatives in Wisconsin: The Power of Cooperative Action, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives.
paper-pitman_09.pdf (1.5MB)

Lynn Pitman, Limited Cooperative Association Statutes: An Update, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, no. 7, 2008.
paper-pitman.pdf (95KB)

Maria Powell and Greg Lawless, The Cooperative Regions of Organic Producer Pools: A Case Study, LaFarge, WI: CROPP Cooperative and Organic Valley, January 2003.
paper-powell-lawless. pdf (410KB)

Anne Reynolds, Benefiting from the Board: A Case Study, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Staff Paper, No 8, November 2008.
paper-reynolds08.pdf (520KB)

Anne Reynolds and Hugh Jeffers, An Assessment of Loan Regulations for Rural Housing Cooperatives, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Staff Paper, No 2, February 2003.
paper-reynolds-jeffers.pdf (760KB)

Kazuko Sato, Family Dairy Farms Under Structural Change In the United States, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Staff Paper, No 5, March 2005.
paper-sato.pdf (760KB)

Kenneth Temkin, Brett Theodos, and David Price, Shared Equity Homeownership Evaluation: Case Study of Wildwood Park Towne Houses, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, Oct 2010.
paper-temkin-et-al.pdf (260KB)

Kenneth Temkin, Brett Theodos, and David Price, Shared Equity Homeownership Evaluation: Case Study of Dos Pinos Housing Cooperative, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, Oct 2010.
paper-temkin-et-al2.pdf (230KB)

Nalinee Thongchua, Greg Lawless, and Maria Powell, Walton Bean Growers’ Cooperative, A Case Study, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, July 2002, updated January 2003.
paper-thongchua-et-al.pdf (330KB)

Kimberly Zeuli, David Freshwater, Deborah Markley, David Barkley, Non-agricultural Cooperatives in Rural Areas: 14 case studies, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Case Study Series, Case Study 1, June 2003.
paper-zueli-et-al.pdf (550KB)

REPORTS

Donna Foster Abernathy, et al., A Day in the Life of Cooperative America, Washington, DC: National Cooperative Business Association, 2008.
report-abernathy-et-al.pdf (2MB)

Rebecca Bauen, WAGES History and Lessons, 1995-2000. Oakland, CA: Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security, 2001.
report-bauen.pdf (129KB)

Neil F. Carlson, UHAB Comes of Age: Thirty Years of Self-Help Housing in New York City, New York, NY: UHAB, 2004.
report-carlson.pdf (881KB)

Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development (CNHED), A Study of Limited-equity Cooperatives in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.: CNHED, Spring 2004.
report-cnhed.pdf (1.09MB)

Steven Deller, Ann Hoyt, Brent Hueth, and Reka Sundaram-Stukel, Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, March 2009.
report-deller-et-al.pdf (800KB)

John R. Dunn et al., Agricultural Cooperatives in the 21st Century. US Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Business Service, Cooperative Information Report no. 60, Washington, D.C.: USDA, November 2002.
report-dunn.pdf (154KB)

Joe Folsom, Measuring the Economic Impact of Cooperatives in Minnesota. USDA: Rural Business-Cooperative Service, RBS Research Report 200. Washington, D.C. Dec. 2003.
report-folsom.pdf (82KB)

William B. Shear, The Cooperative Model as a Potential Component of Structural Reform Options for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office, Nov 15, 2010.
report-gao10.pdf (660KB)

Lita Jans, Personal Assistance Services Cooperatives: Final Report, Boston, MA: Institute for Community Inclusion, November 2007.
report-jans.pdf (2.8MB)

Kerstin Larson et al., Using Worker-owned cooperatives to enhance the economic well-being of rural residents, report for the United States Department of Agriculture, Minneapolis, MN: Northcountry Cooperative Foundation, Center for Cooperative Enterprise and Innovation, December 2004.
report-larson-et-al.pdf (232KB)

Northcountry Cooperative Foundation, In Good Company: A Guide to Cooperative Employee Ownership, Minneapolis, MN: Northcountry, 2006.
report-lund-et-al.pdf (492KB)

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), The Cooperative Promise: A Community and Economic Development Guidebook for Electric Cooperatives. Arlington, VA: NRECA, 2003.
report-nreca.pdf (849KB)

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), Electric Cooperatives and Alternative Energy: A Snapshot. Arlington, VA: NRECA, October 2004.
report-nreca2.pdf (528KB)

Lorette Picciano and Edward Pennick, A Time To Change: Report of the Assessment Conversations Team (ACT Report), Washington, DC and East Point, GA: Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural and The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, Sept 22, 2010.
report-picciano-pennick.pdf (130KB)

Lynn Pitman, Cooperatives in Wisconsin: The Power of Cooperative Action, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, February 2007.
report-pitman.pdf (1.5MB)

Bruce J. Reynolds, Black Farmers in America, 1865-2000: The Pursuit of Independent Farming and the Role of Cooperatives, Washington, DC: USDA Rural Business Cooperative Service, RBS Research Report 194, Oct 2002.
report-reynolds.pdf (200KB)

South Dakota Rural Electric Association (SDREA) and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), South Dakota Electric Cooperatives’ Contribution to the State’s Economy, March 2003.
report-sdrea.pdf (390KB)

Sally K. Ward, Charlie French, and Kelly Giraud, Building Value and Security for Homeowners in “Mobile Home Parks:” A Report on Economic Outcomes, Durham, NH: Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire, December 2006.
report-ward-et-al.pdf (1.4MB)

Kimberly A Zeuli and Robert Cropp, Cooperatives: Principles and Practices for the 21st Century. Madison: University of Wisconsin, August 2004.
report-zeuli.pdf (1MB)