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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
New legislation for cooperatives in Korea
On 29th December 2011, the eve of the International Year of Cooperatives, a new “Framework law on cooperatives”, was passed in the Korean National Assembly.
CECOP will produce a documentary about the resilience of cooperatives to the crisis
CECOP is working on a documentary on the resilience of the cooperatives and participative enterprises in industry and services to the crisis. The film will bring forward emblematic examples of restructuring measures by cooperatives in four European countries: the Foundry de l’Aisne, an enterprise in crisis transformed into a cooperative in France, the MONDRAGON Corporation, the 7th largest industrial group in Spain, Muszynianka, a (...)
Anis Chowdhury (United Nations): “Cooperatives, a viable alternative to the dominant economic paradigm”
Anis Chowdhury, Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), stated that the cooperative movement “has the potential to present itself as a viable alternative to the dominant economic paradigm”. He took part in the debate “The Way Forward”, on cooperatives and development organised by CICOPA in Cancun, for which he recently issued a message saying that it came “at a crucial (...)
Slovakia: when a natural disaster strikes
After the earthquakes that hit Japan and Spain last year, CICOPA wants to give a little hope to the people who have suffered from natural disasters by sharing the story of Eurokov Orlov, a worker cooperative active in the construction sector in Slovakia.
