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Labor and Employment Law

2013

Cooperatives

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Worker Cooperative Creation As Progressive Lawyering: Moving Beyond The One-Person, One-Vote Floor, Gowri Krishna Jan 2013

Worker Cooperative Creation As Progressive Lawyering: Moving Beyond The One-Person, One-Vote Floor, Gowri Krishna

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Community Economic Development (CED) scholars posit that creating worker cooperatives, businesses owned and managed by their workers, is a progressive approach to CED that has the potential to go beyond job creation and spur grassroots political activism. Yet many workers’ rights organizations and workers’ rights advocates, especially those serving low-wage immigrant workers, struggle with how to connect worker cooperatives to broader efforts for change. This Article argues that forming a worker cooperative that acts as a change agent requires more than simply structuring the business as a worker cooperative. Cooperative corporation laws and cooperative principles set a floor — typically, …


Community Syndicalism For The United States: Democratic Production In Resisting Hegemonic Globalization And Law, Kenneth M. Casebeer Jan 2013

Community Syndicalism For The United States: Democratic Production In Resisting Hegemonic Globalization And Law, Kenneth M. Casebeer

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