[cmsmasters_row data_shortcode_id=”n43cyttpyk” data_width=”boxed” data_top_style=”default” data_bot_style=”default” data_color=”default” data_bg_color=”#f7f7f7″ data_padding_top=”110″ data_padding_bottom=”20″ data_resp_vert_pad=”true” data_padding_top_laptop=”70″ data_padding_bottom_laptop=”50″][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″ data_shortcode_id=”yiez2mx59″][cmsmasters_heading shortcode_id=”zsx4c2rd2c” type=”h1″ font_weight=”400″ font_style=”default” text_align=”left” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”15″ animation_delay=”0″]Notable Books on Cooperatives[/cmsmasters_heading][/cmsmasters_column][/cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_row data_padding_bottom_laptop=”50″ data_padding_top_laptop=”70″ data_resp_vert_pad=”true” data_padding_bottom=”20″ data_padding_top=”20″ data_bg_color=”#f7f7f7″ data_color=”default” data_bot_style=”default” data_top_style=”default” data_width=”boxed” data_shortcode_id=”v6wvllboh”][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″ data_shortcode_id=”pjlfp7ikba”][cmsmasters_text shortcode_id=”hg0yxxchns” animation_delay=”0″]
Akuno, Kali and Nangwaya, Ajamu (2017) Jackson Rising, Daraja Press
(An account of the origins and philosophy of the African-American led cooperative initiative, Corporation Jackson in Mississippi State, USA)Â
Harrison, Rob (2013): People Over Capital, World Changing Â
(Essays on Worker Cooperatives represent an alternative to the investor owned firm, and its imp0licaiotns for ordinary people around the world.)Â
Hossein, Caroline Shenaz (2018): The Black Social Economy in The Americas, Palgrave Â
(An examination of the largely informal ways in which African Diaspora communities in the Americas have created cooperative forms of intervention to resist poverty and achieve economic empowerment.)Â Â
Kelly, Marjorie and Howard, Ted (2019): The Making of a Democratic Economy, Berrett Koehler Publishers Â
(A largely US based survey of the wave in worker cooperatives)Â Â Â
Mayo, Ed (2015): The Cooperative Advantage, Co-operatives UK. Â
(An examination of the benefits of cooperative enterprises: economic, political, and psychological, based mainly on evidence from the UK)Â Â
Nembhard, Jessica Gordon (2014): Collective Courage, Penn State Press Â
(A history of African-American led cooperative endeavour from 1780 to 2012)Â
Novkovic, Sanja and Webb, Tom (2014) Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era, Zed BooksÂ
(Essays exploring how the neo-classical economic approach is challenged by the existence and success of cooperatives especially worker cooperatives.)Â Â Â
Restakis, John (2010): Humanizing the Economy, New Society Publishers Â
(A human interest survey of cooperative initiatives from around the world, taking in experiences from Spain, Italy, the USA, Argentina, Japan, The UK, India, and more) Â
Whyte, William Foote and Whyte, Katheleen King (1988): Making Mondragon, ILR Press Â
(A history of the formation and operations of Mondragon from inception in 1956 to the early 1990s, by which time Mondragon had been well established.)Â Â
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