News & Resources from Your Local Co-op

Films / Documentaries

Food For Change is the first film to examine the important historical role played by food co-ops, their pioneering quest for organic foods, and their current efforts to create regional food systems

Food Co-op, the Film is a documentary exploring the history and success of the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, New York

Books

Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragón by George Cheney

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants by Jon Steinman

Lecture

Who Owns Your Grocery Store? by Jon Steinman, Author of Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants

Organizations

Association of Cooperative Educators

Committee on Cooperative Research, International Cooperative Alliance

The Cooperative Development Network

Centre for Learning, Social Economy and Work (University of Toronto)

Cultivate.coop

Democracy Collaborative (University of Maryland)

EMES International Research Network

European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises

Grassroots Economic Organizing

International Labour Organization

The National Cooperative Business Association (US)

The National Center for Employee Ownership (US)

National Cooperative Grocers Association

The Ohio Employee Ownership Center

The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the Democracy at Work Institute

The U.S. Solidarity Economy Network

Center for Cooperatives (University of Wisconsin)