The State of Sector: Worker Cooperatives
Guests:
Olga Prushinskaya and Jamie Pockrandt, Democracy at Work Institute
Summary:
The second most common form of employee ownership in the United States is the worker cooperative where workers participate in both the financial success and governance of the firms. Today there are over 750 worker cooperatives in the United States, which is triple the amount that existed in 2012. How do we know these numbers? Unlike the number of ESOPs which can be tracked using publicly available data generated by the government, there is no public entity that tracks worker cooperatives. Instead, it has been…
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