Economic alternatives. . .
I started to collect the items on this list at the request of students who are teaching a course on economics at the South Bend Center for the Homeless. They wanted some ideas about "alternatives for workers." The list continues to grow with suggestions from colleagues and friends. . .
Richard Wolff, "Capitalism Hits the Fan"
>Media Education Foundation [forthcoming]
Adam Trott, "The Story of Collective Copies" [pdf]
Karen Werner, "Understand and Reclaiming Money Creation: Our Experiences Creating the North Quabbin Timebank" [pdf]
"Made in the USA: American Worker Cooperatives" [available from Rayve Productions, POB 726, Windsor, CA 95492, phone: 800.852.4890]
"Democracy in the Workplace: Three Worker-Owned Businesses in Action"
Erbin Crowell, "Cooperating Like We Mean It: The Cooperative Movement in Northern Italy"
"Five Factories: Workers Control in Venezuela" [California Newsreel]
"Cheticamp Experience: A Model of Economic Cooperation" [video, 1988, 20 mins.]
"New Dawn Enterprises" [video, 1983, 20 mins.]
"Temiscaming, Quebec" [16mm color film, 1976, 60 mins.]
Jenny Cameron, "Thinking and Practising Values: Community Enterprises in the Food Sector" [pdf]
Cooperative Fund of New England
Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy
other coop resources: Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) Newsletter, U.S. Federation of Worker Co-ops, Cooperation Works! National Cooperative Business Association, Jim Megson [worker co-op consultant], University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, ICA Group [worker co-op consultants], Chris Mackin [worker co-op and ESOP consultant], North American Students of Cooperation, Mary Hoyer [lead organizer, Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy]