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Cooperative Theory and Overviews

Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation, by Robin Hahnel

(2005)

Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the 21st Century (1999) and The Political

Economy of Participatory Economics (1991) by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel.Parecon: Life After Capitalism, 2004; Moving Forward: Program for Participatory

Economy (2001); and Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism (2006) by Michael

Albert.Against Capitalism, by David Schweickart (1996)

The Transformation of Capitalist Society, by Zellig Harris (1997)

Workplace Democratization--Its Internal Dynamics by Paul BernsteinThe Participatory Economy (1971); or The Labor-Managed Economy (1977); or Self-

Management: Economic Liberation of Man (1975), by Jaroslav Vanek

The Evolution of Cooperation (1984, 2006) and The Complexity of Cooperation byRobert Axelrod (1997).

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990) orTrust & Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research (2005), by

Elinor OstromNon-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny, by Robert Wright, 2000.

Benello, C. George. From the Ground Up: Essays on Grassroots & Workplace

Democracy, 1992.Carnoy, Martin and Derek Shearer. Economic Democracy, 1980.

Gates, Jeff. The Ownership Solution: Towards a Shared Capitalism for the 21st

Century,

1998.Gastil, John. Democracy in Small Groups: Participation, Decision Making and

Communication, 1993.Greenberg, Edward S. Workplace Democracy: The Political Effects of Participation,

1986.

Hancock, M. Donald, John Logue, and Bernt Schiller, eds. Managing ModernCapitalism: Industrial Democracy in the United States and Western Europe, 1991.

The Ownership of Enterprise, by Henry Hansmann (2000).

Hill, Patricia M., Maryjean McGrath, and Elena Reyes. Cooperative Bibliography: An

Annotated Guide to Works in English on Cooperatives & Cooperation, 1981.Howard, Michael. Self-management and the Crisis of Socialism, 2000.

Ireland, Norman J. and Peter J. Law. The Economics of Labor-Managed Enterprises,

1982.Jackall, Robert and Henry Levin, eds. Worker Cooperatives in America, 1985.

Krimerman, Len and Frank Lindenfeld, eds. Workplace Democracy Takes Root in North

America, 1992.America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

(2006) by Gar Alperovitz and Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a

Global Era (Alperovitz with Thad Williamson, and David Imbroscio, 2002).Curl, John. History of Work Cooperation in America: Cooperatives, Cooperative

Movements, Collectivity and Communalism from Early America to the Present, 1980.

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Curl, John, Allen Cohen, Judy Berg, Morris Older, and Steve Sutcher. History of

Collectivity in the San Francisco Bay Area: From Indian Times to the Present, 1982.Ellerman, David. The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (1990).

Ellerman, David. Property & Contract in Economics: The Case of Economic

Democracy (1992).

Lutz, Mark A. and Kenneth Lux. Humanistic Economics: The New Challenge, 1988.Wisman, Jon D. Worker Empowerment: The Struggle for Workplace Democracy, 1991.

Whyte, William Foote, Tove Helland Hammer, Cristopher Meek, Reed Nelson, and

Robert Stern. Worker Participation and Ownership: Cooperative Strategies forStrengthening Local Economies, 1983.

Carnoy, Martin and Derek Shearer. Economic Democracy, 1980.

Zwerdling, Daniel. Workplace Democracy: A Guide to Workplace Ownership,Participation, and Self-management Experiments in the United States and Europe, 1980.

McLeod, Greg. From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic

Development, 1998.Hunnius, Gerry, G. David Garson & John Case. Workers Control: A Reader on Labor

& Social Change, 1973.

How-To Guides

Putting Democracy to Work: A Practical Guide for Starting and Managing Worker-Owned Businesses, By Frank T. Adams and Gary B. Hansen.

We Own It: Starting & Managing Cooperatives & Employee Owned Ventures, by Peter

Jan Honigsberg, Bernard Kamoroff, and Jim Beatty (1991)No Bosses Here!: A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively, by Karen

Brandow, Jim McDonnell, and Vocations for Social ChangeDeveloping Successful Worker Co-operatives (Britain, 1988), by Chris Cornforth, Alan

Thomas, Roger Spear, and Jenny Lewis.

The Internal Capital Account System, by Richard Feldman (1988).Workers' Cooperative Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up a Workers'

Cooperative, by Peter Cockerton and Ann Whyatt (Britain, 1984)

Hansen, Gary, E. Kim Coontz, and Audrey Malan. Steps to Starting a Worker Co-op,

1997. (copy in Spanish as well)Bell, Daniel. An Employee Onwer's Guide to Understanding Financial Reports, 1994.

Bell, Daniel. Bringing Your Employees into the Business: An Employee Ownership

Handbook for Small Business, 1988.Hunter, Dale, Anne Bailey, and Bill Taylor. Co-operacy: A New Way of Being at Work,

1997.

SAJE. Cooperando: A Guide to Spanish Resources on Worker-owned Businesses, 1997.Worker Ownership Development Foundation (Canada). Starting a Worker Cooperative:

An Introduction, 1985, 40 pages.

Linkster, Alex. The Handbook to Get Things Done in Companies with OrganizationalDemocracy, 2008.

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International (non-U.S.) Lessons

Bayat, Assef. Work, Politics, and Power: An International Perspective on Workers'

Control and Self-Management, 1991.

Cheney, George. Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at

Mondragon, 1999.Ellerman, David. The Mondragon Cooperative Movement, Harvard Business School

case study, 1982.

Holmstrom, Mark. Industrial Democracy In Italy, 1985.Holmstrom, Mark. Spain's New Social Economy: Workers' Self-Management In

Catalonia, 1993.

ICA Group. Mondragon: An English Language Bibliography, 1985.Issac, T.M. Thomas, Richard W. Franke, and Pyaralal Raghavan. Democracy at Work:

An Indian Industrial Cooperative, 1998.

Axworthy, Christopher S. Worker Cooperatives in Mondragon, the U.K. and France:Some Reflections, 1985. Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of

Saskatchewan.Azurmendi, Joxe. El Hombre Cooperativo: Pensamiento de Arizmendiarrieta, 1992.

Ormaechea, Jose Maria. The Mondragon Cooperative Experience (1991).Mondragon Cooperative Corporation. Mondragon: Forty Years of Co-operative History,

1996.

Dolgoff, Sam, Ed. The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-management in the SpanishRevolution, 1936-1939, 1990.

Kasmir, Sharryn. The Myth of Mondragon, 1996.

Kaswan, Jaques & Ruth. Cooperative Systems in France, Basque Spain and Frankfurt.Philip, Kate. Cooperatives in South Africa: Their Role in Job Creation and Poverty

Reduction, South Africa Foundation Occasional Paper No. 2/2003.Russell, Raymond. Utopia in Zion: The Israeli Experience with Worker Cooperatives,

1995.

Spiro, Melford E. Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia, 1970.Whyte, William Foote and Kathleen King Whyte. Making Mondragon: The Growth and

Dynamics of the Mondragon Cooperative Complex, 1988.

McLeod, Greg. From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic

Development, 1998.Magnini, Esteban. The Silent Change: Recovered Businesses in Argentina, 2009.

Connection to Larger Labor Movement

The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in theGuilded Age, by Steven Leiken

Larson, Richard S. Labor Unions and Worker Owned Firms: A Look at the Theory and

the Reality, 1985.Wood, Haydn. Valleytown Community Corporation Case: Union Role in a Community

Employee-Owned Firm, 1981.

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Hunnius, Gerry, G. David Garson & John Case. Workers Control: A Reader on Labor

& Social Change, 1973.

Cooperative Law & Dispute Resolution

Harper, Michael C. "Reconciling Collective Bargaining with Employee Supervision ofManagement" from University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 137 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1, Nov.

1988.

Hyde, Alan. "In Defense of Employee Ownership" inIIT Chicago-Kent Law Review, 67Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 159, 1991.

Hansmann, Henry. "When Does Worker-ownership Work?: ESOPS, Law Firms,

Codetermination, and Economic Democracy" in Yale Law Journal, 99 Yale L.J. 1749,June 1990.

Helfman, Neil A. The Application of Labor Law to Workers' Cooperatives, 1992.

Hoffmann Elizabeth A. Dispute Resolution in a Worker Cooperative: FormalProcedures and Procedural Justice, 39 Law & Society Review 31 (2005)

Baldwin, Van P. A Legal Guide to Co-op Administration, 1996.Baldwin, Van P. Co-op Incorporation Sourcebook, 1994.

Ellerman, David and Peter Pitegoff. "The Democratic Corporation: The New WorkerCooperative Statute in Massachusetts,"NYU Review of Law & Social Change, Vol. XXI:

441, 1982-83.

Case Studies/Portraits

Russell, Raymond. Collecting Garbage: Dirty Work, Clean Jobs, Proud People,1978/1998 (about the San Francisco scavenger cooperatives).

Hartzell, Hal, Jr. Birth of a Cooperative: Hoedads, Inc., A Worker Owned Forest Labor

Co-op, 1987.ICA Group. Financing Worker Cooperatives: Selected Case Illustrations, 1982.

Dawson, Steven L. and Sherman Kreiner. Cooperative Home Care Associates: History

and Lessons, 1993.

Pencavel, John. Worker Participation: Lessons from the Worker Cooperatives of thePacific Northwest, 2002.

Abrams, John. The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People,

Community, and Place, 2005