cooperatives

Themes : Alternative forms of entrepreneurship, production and consumption

13 publications

How Cooperatives Are Driving the New Economy

The Spring 2013 Issue of YES! Magazine

May 2013
The amazing power of cooperatives. Texts selected from the international call for paper proposals. Cooperatives Summit Quebec 2012

Marie-Joëlle Brassard, Ernesto Molina, 2012
Capital and the Debt Trap: Learning from Cooperatives in the Global Crisis

Bruno Roelants, Claudia Sanchez Bajo, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, September 2011
The New-Economy Movement

Article of The Nation, June 13, 2011

Gar Alperovitz, June 2011
The Social Economy International. Perspectives on Economic Solidarity

Edited by Ash Amin, Zed Books, UK, September 2009
The Changing Boundaries of Social Enterprises

OECD, January 2009
The Worth of Social Economy : an International Perspective

Edited by Marie J. Bouchard, 2009
Other economies are possible

Dollars and Sense #266, July-August 2006

July 2006
A Direct Stake in Economic Life: Worker-Owned Firms

February 2006 issue of Vermont Commons, USA.

Gar Alperovitz, February 2006
America beyond Capitalism. Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

Gar Alperovitz, Published by the Democracy Collaborative Press and Dollars and Sense., April 2004
Italy’s Emilia Romagna Clustering Co-op Development

Article from Cooperative Grocer for retailors and cooperators, #109, November-December 2003

David J. Thompson, November 2003
The Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm. A Popular Initiative.

2003
Tackling social exclusion in Europe: The Contribution of the Social Economy

Roger Spear, Jacques DEFOURNY, Louis Favreau, Jean-Louis Laville, Ashgate Publishing Limited, March 2001

One proposal

Building an Economy for People and Nature,

Justice Rising.Grassroots solution to Corporate domination VOL5 « 1 Fall 2010

September 2010

17 case studies

Community supported agriculture

Simply Good Food, New Zealand

John McKay, February 2012
La Base / The Working World (Buenos Aires – Argentina)

Felipe Zalamea, November 2011
National case study Republic of South Africa.The need for a State-Civil society dialogue to develop public policies for the Social and Solidairty Economy

International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011

Susan Steinman, October 2011
Social Solidarity Economy in Rural China

International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development #81

Yvon Poirier, September 2011
Kavita Mukhi, a pioneer in organic food market in India. An interview

Valérie Fernando, May 2010
From Protest, to Proposal, to Project in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Steffen Lajoie, 2010
Mondragon Cooperative Corporation

A critical analysis of the strengths, weaknesses and potentialities of the model

Judith Hitchman, November 2008
A cooperative in India: the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

Rajni Bakshi, September 2008
Malawi’s High grown Coffee

Coffee growers from the mountains of Northern Malawi have built up a strong structure to support them in the production, processing and marketing of their cash crops. The result is a lucrative business that is taking their households out of poverty and encouraging farmers to stay on their land.

Laura ARNALTE, October 2006
Community Economic Development (CED) in the Philippines

The turning point of the Agri-Aqua Development Coalition - Mindanao

Yvon Poirier, June 2006
General Union of Co-operatives (UGC) Mozambique

Yvon Poirier, June 2005
Interview with Mr. Victor Deguenon, Houéyiho Garde

Mr. Victor Déguénon is 60 years old, is married and has 8 children. He became a gardener on 5 January 1972. He had already been elected President of the Gardeners Association in 1992. Due to the reforms arising from the decentralization, he was re-elected President of said Association in the latest elections, in order to contribute, in the light of his experience, to the development of his cooperative.

Aurélien Atidegla, April 2004
Interview of Oscarina Camillo, Cooperativa de Trabalho na Área de Psicologia - Coop Mútua-Ação (Work Cooperative in the Field of Psychology - Mutual Action Coop in Santo André (Brasil, Sao Paolo)

Oscarina is a representative of the workers affiliated to the Brazilian ECOSOL movement, leader of the Sao Paulo Solidarity Economy Forum (Foro Paulista de Economía Solidaria), and second representative of the southeastern region in the executive coordination of the BSEF-Brazilian Solidarity Economy Forum.

Rosemary Gomes, March 2004
Interview with the Pasay City Cooperative Office, Philippines

The Pasay City Cooperative Office promotes the creation and strengthening of cooperatives (housing problems and identification of economic projects for the populations of the shantytowns). Organization, coordination and networking of 10 people’s organizations in 10 villages.Importance of wisdom and spirituality.

Ben Quiñones, February 2004
Interview with Salomón Hernán Zerpa - President of the PUNHA Network and Mayor of Abrapampa -Argentina

Organizations and different social actors who had been called to “Espacio NOA” were taking part in the meeting “Social organizations and politics: Do we join in or are we already in? »

Jose Luis Coraggio, January 2004
Interview with Joaquim Alves de Souza, Cooperativa Agroecológica Pela Vida/COOPEVIDA (Agro-ecological Cooperative for Life) - São Raimundo das Mangabeiras, Maranhão, Brazil.

Joaquim is a member of COOPEVIDA. At present he is the General Coordinator of CENTRU-MA (Educational and Cultural Center for the Rural Worker) and Vice President of CCAMA (Association of Agriculturalist Cooperatives of Maranhão). Together with his family, he owns a 33-hectare (81.5-acre) property in Mangabeiras County, southern Maranhão.

Marcos Arruda, November 2003
Women in the Ratnagiri Cooperative in Maharashtra, India

Nalini NAYAK, A. VIJAYAN, September 2001

16 analyses

Identity, participation and firm longevity: An Analysis of Worker Cooperatives through the Lens of Argentina’s Recovered Firm Movement

Article for the Cooperatives Summit, Québec 2012

Alexandra Reese, 2012
Study on the implementation of the Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE)

Final Study Executive Summary and Part I: Synthesis and comparative report

October 2010
Public Policy for the Social Economy: Building a people-centred economy in Canada

PUBLIC POLICY Paper Series Cahiers SUR les POLITIQUEs PUBLIQUEs Number 03 - jun e 2010

Sarah Amyot, Rupert Downing, Crystal Tremblay, June 2010
Public Policy Trends and Instruments Supporting the Social Economy: International Experiences

This paper highlights public policy trends and instruments from around the world that use the Social Economy as a framework to enhance socio-economic development and environmental sustainability.

Crystal Tremblay, April 2010
Advancing the Social Economy for Socio-economic Development: International perspectives

The growing attention to the concept of the Social Economy (SE) is indicative of efforts to address inter-related social, economic and environmental issues affecting the sustainable development of people, communities, and nations, and the inter-dependent nature of global human development.

Crystal Tremblay, March 2010
The Solidarity Economy: An International Movement

Published in Kawano, Emily and Tom Masterson and Jonathan Teller-Ellsberg (eds). Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet. Amherst, MA: Center for Popular Economics. 2010.

Jean-Louis Laville, 2010
Making Other Economies Possible: Inequality, Consciousness-Raising and the Solidarity Economy in Chile

Lindsay Rose Adams, 2010
File: An Economics for well-being

Rajni Bakshi, September 2008
Economics, Cooperation, and Employee Ownership: The Emilia Romagna model – in more detail

John Logue, 2006
Mondragon: a holding company of co-operatives faced with globalization

Conference at L’Ecole de Paris, 2005

Jacques Prades, Fernando Gomez Acedo, November 2005
The Cooperative District of Imola Forging the High Road to Globalization

Matt Hancock, 2005
Promoting rural women’s cooperative businesses in Thailand. A training kit. Part 1.

RAP publication 2004/01

Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, Wim Polman, January 2004
A New European Socioeconomic Perspective

Review of Social Economy, VOL. LXI, NO. 3, September 2003

Jean-Louis Laville, September 2003
Malpe Fisherwomen’s Cooperative Society in Karnataka

M. Gracy, September 2001
Community Currency Systems: A Co-operative Option for the Developing World ?

Peter Moers, 1998
Study on the implementation of the Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE)

Final Study Part II. National Reports 5 October 2010

4 public contributions

If You Don’t Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want?

Thirty-First Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures

Gar Alperovitz, November 2011
Japan’s Lost Decades and a Women-led Socio-Solidarity Economy

Contribution to Asian Solidarity Economy Forum 2009

Yoko Kitazawa, April 2009
Local Development in Emilia-Romagna: Alternatives in Action

22 November 2005, RIPESS Conference, Dakar

Matt Hancock, November 2005
Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and the Cooperative Movement

Summary of the round table and workshops on Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and the Cooperative Movement during the 2003 World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Pierre Johnson, January 2003