Cooperativism at Work

Introduction 1. Worker and social cooperatives within the wider cooperative movement: importance, evolution and the making of universal standards INDIA 2. Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society: a century of excellence KENYA 3. Kigro Recyclers Worker Cooperative: bringing workers out of the informal economy MOROCCO 4. At-Tawafouk cooperative: the unusual story of a Moroccan worker cooperative for waste collection and processing GREECE 5. From workers' struggle to workers' control through a cooperative: the VIOME case in Greece: a cooperative born in the years of the Greek socio-economic crisis FRANCE 6. Introduction to the French worker cooperatives (SCOP) 7. Ethiquable: the path to cooperative fairtrade 8. Parcs & Sports: an emblematic worker buyout 40 years ago, today an innovative business 9. Quonex Alsatel: an ICT business taken over by its staff 10. Ardelaine: a local development cooperative SPAIN 11. Worker cooperatives in Spain: a review of their impressive growth over the last decades 12. Agresta Cooperative Society: a relentless search for forestry solutions to achieve a more liveable society, applying the cooperative principles 13. Gredos San Diego Cooperative Society: education is "the basis for achieving, among all of us, a more supportive, innovative society, capable, fair and free" 14.The Mondragon Group: one of the most important examples of entrepreneurial cooperation between cooperatives ITALY 15. Italian social cooperatives: a reality emerging from worker cooperatives 16. Cauto Social Cooperative: "do, learn, share" 17. GOEL Social Cooperative Consortium: successfully struggling against the Calabrian mafia 18. A unique support system for worker buyouts: the Marcora Law and CFI UNITED KINGDOM 19. The national worker cooperative background in the UK 20. Calvertâs North Star Press Ltd: how a printing shop was reborn SWEDEN 21. V¤gen Ut! (the way out): a "social worker cooperative" for work integration JAPAN 22.The worker cooperative movement in Japan: history and background 23. Central Worker Cooperative: combining services of general interest and work integration of disadvantaged persons 24. Creators 440Hz: the democratic way of living - from democratic education to democratic work SOUTH KOREA 25. Worker cooperatives in South Korea 26. Happy Bridge cooperative: becoming a worker cooperative through institutionalising and learning CANADA 27. Worker cooperative history and context in Canada 28. Pivot: an architectural cooperative engaged in the community USA 29. Worker cooperatives in the United States of America 30. Cooperative Home Care Associates: worker cooperative development and unionisation hand in hand 31. The Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives: a group of bakery worker cooperatives inspired by Mondragon BRAZIL 32. Uniforja: a story that has been built up for 24 years by workers in a self-management system URUGUAY 33. La Diaria cooperative: Uruguayâs second daily newspaper NEW GENERATION COOPERATIVES 34. Networks of IT worker cooperatives in Argentina and globally: FACTTIC and PATIO Conclusions