Worker Owned Cooperatives of Long Island, NY Videos
Time Bank Worker Coop Incubator Video
Abolish Human Rentals Video
This Way Out Video about worker coops
Mandela Marketplace Community & Food Hub Video
Other Avenues Worker Coop Video
Video about The Rainbow Grocery, The Cheeseboard, and Arizmendi Bakery
John Abrams of South Mountain, Sharing Ownership of the Future
A Capitalism Alternative? The Mondragon Cooperatives and Prof. Fred Freundlich Video
July 28, 2011: Finding a Solution in Employee Ownership
March 11, 2009: Jackson’s Hardware: Employee Ownership Nets Customer Loyalty
Nov 23, 2009: Perspectives on Employee Ownership as Part of Alternative Models of Capitalism
The Take -
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.
All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act – The Take – has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.
In the wake of Argentina’s dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America’s most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former employees take action. They’re part of a daring new movement of workers who are occupying bankrupt businesses and creating jobs in the ruins of the failed system.
But Freddy, the president of the new worker’s co-operative, and Lalo, the political powerhouse from the Movement of Recovered Companies, know that their success is far from secure. Like every workplace occupation, they have to run the gauntlet of courts, cops and politicians who can either give their project legal protection or violently evict them from the factory.
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