Faith And Co-ops Resources

If you are looking for an alternative online bookstore to the giant corporations, please check out Atlas Books on bookshop.org. This is a budding worker cooperative soon to be located in Johnson City, TN. or you can search for many of your local independent bookstores on bookshop.org!

Faith, Labor, & Co-ops

Interventions Forum on Cooperatives and Religious Communities
Interventions Forum on Faith, Class, and Labor
Rieger, Joerg and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger, “Deep Solidarity: Embracing God's Power to Alleviate Poverty and Create Structural Change”
Rieger, Joerg and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger, “Deep Solidarity: Broadening the Basis of Transformation.” In HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 73:3 (2017), South Africa. Pp. 1-7.
Aden, John, “Churches and Cooperatives: Imagining and Embodying Alternatives to Capitalist Extraction”

Cooperatives

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
For All the People by John Curl
Weavers of Dreams: Founders of the Modern Cooperative Movement by David Thompson
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy by Nathan Schneider
Economic Democracy
Worker Cooperatives: Default Alternative to Predatory United States Capitalism
What If Workers Owned Their Own Workplaces?
Building an Economy for People and Planet- Emily Kawano (on solidarity Economy)

Union Cooperatives

Annotated CIT Project Bibliography

Throughout the fall of 2020, members of our team read and reported back on several books and articles at the intersection of faith and cooperatives. Click here to learn more about these resources.

Books, Articles, Readings

Christian Formation and Liturgy

Worker Cooperative Resources

Worker Cooperatives Videos

Shift Change: Putting Democracy to work: This is a film by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin and tells the little known stories of employee-owned businesses that compete successfully in today's economy while providing secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces.
Own the Change This is a short, practical guide for those considering worker owned cooperatives, made by GRITtv & TESA, the Toolbox for Education and Social Action. It features conversations with worker-owners from co-ops in various sectors.
Mondragon This is a 50 minute documentary about Mondragon, the largest conglomerate of worker cooperatives in the world.
Closed captioning can be selected for English translation. Original language is Dutch.
Capitalish: This is a video made by Haverford students about four Philadelphia-area worker co-ops for the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance
Unstoppable: This video by Bonfire Media Collective shows how communities across Philadelphia are building cooperative businesses to create more equitable and just workplaces, neighborhoods, and cities.
Employee Ownership A short video by the Employee Ownership Expansion Network on how to convert a business to a worker cooperative.
Building the Solidarity Economy in the Context of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
From Inequality to Solidarity: Co-Creating A New Economics for the 21st Century
Go Co-op! Cooperatives are a Better Way to Do Business

Worker Co-op Podcasts

Nathan Schneider - Cooperatives, the Commons and Ownership
All Things Co-op: All Things Co-op is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Kevin Gustafson, Larry Fenster and CInar Akcin that explores everything co-op. From theoretical and philosophical conversations about political economy and the relations of production, to on-the-ground interviews with cooperative workers, All Things Co-op aims to appeal to a wide audience of activists, organizers, workers, and students to be better educated and motivated to create a new cooperative society.
The Next Systems Podcast: The Next System Podcast is a biweekly series featuring leaders from academia, politics, business, and the grassroots discussing movements, models, and pathways toward a new system.

Worker Cooperative
How-to Guides

Worker Cooperative Links