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!

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.

• Bible Study on Faith and Cooperative Economics

• Labor Hymns

  • Assorted Labor Hymns by Jann Aldredge-Clanton

  • Good Work Begins with Our Great God

  • Lord, When Were You a Stranger?

  • Loving God Means Seeking Justice

• La misa campesina nicaragüense (The Nicaraguan Peasant Mass)

• Prayer of the Farm Workers’ Struggle

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

• Think Outside the Boss: How to Create a Worker Owned Business

• In Good Company: The Guide to Cooperative Employee Ownership

Worker Cooperative Links

• Southeast Center for Cooperative Development

  • Website: www.co-opsnow.org

  • Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/organizingtheneweconomy

• Faith and Co-op Partnerships

  • Grace in Action: A church in Detroit that incubates co-ops as a way to create jobs

  • Faith Cooperative Credit Union: started by Friendship West Baptist Church

  • Beloved Community Incubator: Church founded and funded co-op incubator in DC

• US Federation of Worker Cooperatives

• Democracy at Work Institute

• Worker Co-op Conversions

• Project Equity

• Sustainable Economies Law Center

• Center for Family Life

• Co-op Cincy

• Robert Reich on Why Unions Matter

• Rev. William Barber: “Unions are Tremendous”

• Religion and Labor Webinar Series, Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice

• Economic Justice “How-To” Manual, Episcopal Network for Economic Justice

• Common Sense Economics Training

Movies about workers’ rights struggles:

• Salt of the Earth

• Matewan

• 9 to 5

Movies about cooperatives:

The Take: A documentary by Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein

Music:

Playlist of Resistance Songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2bsbhAnyYUaMNXI0aFZmWQ