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What If Uber Were a Unionized, Worker-Owned Co-Op? These Denver Cabbies Are Making It Happen

Workers at app-driven companies like Uber don鈥檛 have the rights of full employees. But with the help of traditional unions, some are banding together into worker-owned cooperatives.

Mary Hansen | Apr 10, 2015

Craigslist Saved 5M Tons of Stuff From Landfills鈥擜nd 4 Other New Stats on Local Economies

Exactly how much difference do 鈥渘ew economy鈥� organizations make? Economists looked into it, and here are a few of their results.

Mary Hansen | Mar 4, 2015

Students for Economic Pluralism, Unite! How College Kids Are Taking on the 鈥淗igh Priests鈥� of Money

After years of work as a climate activist, Keith Harrington decided to get a degree in economics. Now, he鈥檚 working to transform the field.

James Trimarco | Feb 21, 2015

Local economies | Sustainable food and farming

Local Food With a Big Twist: Oregon Super-Cooperative Takes Aim at the Corporate Food System

This co-op south of Portland wants to strengthen the local food system by helping local farmers cooperate instead of compete with one another.

Liz Pleasant, Mary Hansen | Feb 19, 2015

Local economies

This Rust-Belt Town鈥檚 Survival Strategy Is All About Giving Workers Control

Reading is one of Pennsylvania鈥檚 poorest cities. Can its residents turn things around by building a more democratic economy?

Abby Scher | Jan 14, 2015

Local economies | Citizens United

Owning Together Is the New Sharing

Companies and startups are aspiring toward an economy, and an Internet, that is more fully ours with the use of cooperatives, "commons-based peer production," and cryptocurrencies.

Nathan Schneider | Dec 31, 2014

Still from video about Greensboro food co-op.

Sustainable food and farming

After Years Without a Grocery Store, Greensboro Neighbors Are Building One Themselves鈥擜nd They鈥檒l Own It

Fed up with essentially begging for access to quality food, residents of this predominantly African-American and low-income neighborhood decided to open their own grocery store.

Dave Reed | Oct 18, 2014

Three Moves for a Bigger, Stronger Worker-Owned Economy

While worker-owned co-ops provide a significant chunk of employment in several European countries, in the United States we still have a ways to go. Fortunately, opportunities for growth are everywhere.

Alison Lingane | Oct 16, 2014

Local economies

What Housing Organizers in Buffalo Learned from the 鈥�70s

Why did some of the cooperative institutions built in the 鈥�70s鈥攅specially food co-ops鈥攇et to scale and thrive in subsequent decades, while others faded away?

Aaron Bartley | Oct 14, 2014

McDonald鈥檚 workers on strike in July 2013 in St. Louis

Local economies

With an Economy that Worked for All, Mike Brown Would Still Be Alive

鈥淥ur full humanity is expressed only when we have the capacity and the opportunity to be productive, to do for ourselves, meeting our needs in our communities.鈥�

Ed Whitfield | Oct 14, 2014

Local economies

Want to Build an Economy that Works for Everybody? Next Week, We鈥檙e All About It

Next Monday, 大象传媒 and the New Economy Coalition kick off New Economy Week鈥攆ive days of national conversation about the ideas, strategies, and projects that make up the movement.

Mary Hansen | Oct 11, 2014

The Board of Island Employee Cooperative. Photo by Island Employee Cooperative / Facebook.

Local economies | Jobs

Workers in Maine Buy Out Their Jobs, Set an Example for the Nation

For the new worker-owners of the Island Employee Cooperative, the transformation into a co-op will create profound changes in their lives.

Brian Van Slyke, Noemi Giszpenc, Rob Brown | Oct 1, 2014

New graduates from a free training program in July at the Cooperative Home Care Associates offices in the Bronx

Local economies | Jobs

How America’s Largest Worker Owned Co-Op Lifts People Out of Poverty

Cooperative Home Care Associates' 2,300 workers enjoy good wages, regular hours, and family health insurance. With an investment of $1.2 million into the cooperative sector, New York City is hoping to build on the group's success.

Laura Flanders | Aug 15, 2014

Gar Alperovitz on Why the New Economy Movement Needs to Think Big

His new book, "What Then Must We Do?" imagines how a new economic system might actually emerge, from the bottom up, in the next few decades.

Scott Gast | Jul 3, 2014

Local economies

Worker-Owned Co-ops Get $1 Million in NYC Spending

New York City's newly approved budget allocates $1.2 million for developing and supporting worker-owned cooperative businesses.

Liz Pleasant | Jun 28, 2014

Mondrag贸n and the System Problem

Among the lessons of a major cooperative business' bankruptcy: The success of big co-ops might depend on things like radically reforming transportation and other parts of the larger economy.

Gar Alperovitz, Thomas M. Hanna | Mar 25, 2014

Green Worker Co-Op Academy photo by Stephen O'Byrne

Co-Op Academy Teaches Workers to Build Green and Cooperative Businesses

GRITtv's Laura Flanders speaks with the founder of the program and takes you inside one of its classes.

| Aug 15, 2013

Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young: A New Economy for Present Times

Laura Flanders interviews the directors of Shift Change, a film about the cooperative business movement.

| Jul 6, 2013

Worker-Owned Window Factory Opens for Business

When the company known as Republic Windows and Doors closed its Chicago factory, the workers raised the money to buy back the company themselves. The worker-owned cooperative they formed opens today.

| May 10, 2013

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