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Work Together
The global information magazine on cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises in industry, services and crafts
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World Standards of Social Cooperatives
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The impact of the crisis on worker and social cooperatives 2011 report
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World Declaration on Worker Cooperatives
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The International Organisation of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producers’ Cooperatives, or CICOPA, is a sectoral organisation of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA). Its full members are representative organisations of producers’ co-operatives from different sectors: construction, industrial production, general services, transport, intellectual skills, artisanal activities, health, social care, etc. Its associated members are support organisations promoting cooperatives in those sectors. Read more
Through their eyes: cooperators facing the crisis
In times of crisis, not all business models work in the same way. Some enterprises face new challenges and base their hopes on strong values and principles. Participation, freedom and solidarity are the cornerstones that enable them to overcome economic problems and make a sustainable future possible. They are the worker cooperatives, social cooperatives and participative enterprises. To mark the United Nations International Year (...)
A Different Museum
Imagine a museum whose most precious possession is not a painting by Van Gogh or an art installation by Ai Weiwei but a 100-year-old packed lunch wrapped in an old newspaper from 1886. Such a museum actually exists. It is the Danish co-operative Workers’ Museum in Copenhagen, situated in a building which is recognised as the very first listed Workers’ Assembly Hall in the (...)
Employment increases by 7.2% in cooperatives during the last quarter in Spain
The latest figures from the cooperative movement demonstrate, once again, that worker cooperatives offer a future way out for enterprises in a time of crisis, such as the one which we are experiencing today.
