Worker Cooperatives: A Class Analysis

Participatory Bureaucracy: Addressing Gender Inequality in Worker Cooperatives

“…As liberationist projects, worker cooperatives have sought to understand what their workers need and want, and then to transform labor and even markets as much as possible to provide for those needs and wants (Gibson-Graham, 2003;Pérotin, 2013;Berry and Bell, 2018). These liberationist projects have varied over time and space: liberation from oligarchy (Greenberg, 1986;Hernandez, 2006;Healy, 2011;Blasi, Freeman and Kruse, 2013), industrialization and rationalization (Webb and Webb, 1897;Rothschild-Whitt, 1979;Jackall, 1984;Gibson-Graham, Cameron and Healy, 2013;Hoffmann, 2016;White, 2018), capitalism (Marx, 1864;Gunn, 2004;Leikin, 2004;Huertas-Noble, 2010;Safri, 2011;Gourevitch, 2013;Ji, 2019), neoliberalism (Gibson-Graham, 2003Vieta, 2009;Pérotin, 2013;Williams, 2013;Dufays et al, 2020;Zitcer, 2021), racism (Du Bois, 1907Leikin, 2004;Gordon Nembhard, 2014;Berry and Bell, 2018;Prushinskaya et al, 2021), and sexism and heterosexism (Taylor, 1983;Mellor, Hannah and Stirling, 1988;Hacker, 1989;Loe, 1999;Sobering, 2016;Davis, 2017).…”

Assembling community economies

“…Numerous studies deploy this framework. Gibson-Graham (2003b) examines the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation in the Basque country and their ethical approaches on a wide range of issues – from products to memberships (on worker cooperatives see also Safri, 2011). Graham and Cornwell (2009) examine community organizations in Massachusetts, highlighting how their ethos related to needs, surplus, consumption, and commons, among others, prioritizes a community’s relationships, autonomy, flexibility, resilience, and the subjectivities of its participants (for a research in the Philippines see also Community Economies Collective and Gibson, 2009).…”