13/12/2025
2025 was the 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 and, for the occasion, we've been organizing a monthly reading circle for our Routledge Handbook together with the Coalition for Worker Ownership and Power (COWOP), a group of cooperative practitioners from Massachusetts and beyond. Together with COWOP's members, the respective authors and the editorial team, we've read twelve of the book's chapters. We've discussed and debated how contribute to the , what their and impact is, how new schemes could benefits coops, how to democracy, studied coops and , discussed and its relevance for coops, and much more!
Next Wednesday at 12PM EST(Boston)/6PM CET(Paris), we will wrap up the reading circle with an end-of-year online celebration where we will also be introducing our new Open Access volume, 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. We will be gathering to reflect on what we've learned and what the future brings for coops. Perhaps we'll get into some of the debates in the new book: on and coops, on , or on the diversity of global cooperative experiences, from to , and beyond.
Join us and let's wrap up this cooperative year festively!
If you would like to join us, please write me or Sarah Assefa (sarah.a(at)economicdemocracy.us) for an invite or follow this link next Wednesday: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/cowop/ (and please use the access code: "friend").
