Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike
by Eugene W. Holland · 1 Jan 2009 · 265pp · 15,515 words
late eighteenth century. Among the best-known early cooperatives was the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society, which was founded in Rochdale, England, in 1844 and whose Rochdale Principles have since become a touchstone for cooperative organizing around the world (including Latin America). Unlike Robert Owen’s slightly earlier programs of philanthropy and community
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f the Rochdale Pioneers. On the cooperative movem ent and workers cooperatives more generally, see Adams, Putting Democracy to Work, esp. 11-14 on the Rochdale principles, and Dow, Governing the Firm. 5. Indeed, M arx claimed th a t the cooperative movement constituted a “greater victory of the political economy of
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Mar 2014 · 565pp · 151,129 words
. Ibid. 61. “Cooperative Principles and Values,” International Cooperative Alliance, 2011, http://www.cdi .coop/icaprinciples.html. 62. Ibid. 63. “The Rochdale Principles,” Rochdale Pioneers Museum, http://www.rochdalepioneersmuseum .coop/about-us/the-rochdale-principles. 64. “Cooperative Facts and Figures,” International Cooperative Alliance, http://ica.coop/en/whats -co-op/co-operative-facts-figures (accessed
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words
great, but all along there has been a real sharing economy at work, the cooperative economy. One can trace the modern cooperative movement to the Rochdale Principles of 1844, in England, though it had precursors among ancient tribes, monasteries, and guilds around the world. The rudiments of this stuff could be basic
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workplace. While the necessary enthusiasm of makers doesn’t always sit well with justifiably skeptical scholars, their dialogue is important. Jointly, they could rewrite the Rochdale principles for the digital economy, for instance. Education is an essential cornerstone of platform cooperativism. Platform co-ops should consider the following principles. The first one
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organized lives together. In gritty Northwest England, during the Industrial Age’s heyday—Manchester in the 1840s—the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers composed their Rochdale Principles, which became the foundation of the modern cooperative movement. It was in this same region, around the same time, that industrial labor unions were beginning
Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
by Aaron Dignan · 1 Feb 2019 · 309pp · 81,975 words
years, with the earliest examples emerging in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Co-ops generally embody a set of ideals known as the Rochdale Principles: (1) voluntary and open membership, (2) democratic member control, (3) economic participation by members, (4) autonomy and independence, (5) education, training, and information, (6) cooperation
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Idleness, and Other Essays (London: Routledge, 2004), 6, www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html. known as the Rochdale Principles: “The Rochdale Principles,” Co-operative Heritage Trust, accessed September 1, 2018, www.rochdalepioneersmuseum.coop/about-us/the-rochdale-principles. one study of cooperatives: Virginie Pérotin, “What Do We Really Know About Worker Co-operatives?” Co-operatives UK