Cooperatives and mutuals
Owned by members rather than investors, so surplus returns to users. Academic and advocacy writing dominates; there is little cool-headed operating literature.
8 books · 3 people behind it
Start here
- Stay the CourseJohn C. Bogle, 2018
- Making MondragónWilliam Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte, 1988
- Owning Our FutureMarjorie Kelly, 2012
The people behind it 3
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 1
Founders 1
Executives 1
Books 8
George Jacob Holyoake · 1858 · The Rochdale Pioneers by a contemporary; the founding cooperative account.
William Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte · 1988 · The fieldwork classic on the largest worker co-operative complex.
Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse · 2013 · The long American history of profit-sharing and broad-based ownership.
John C. Bogle · 2018 · Founder account of Vanguard, the mutual structure applied to fund management.
John Restakis · 2010 · The global co-operative sector and how member ownership works.
Marjorie Kelly · 2012 · Survey of member, employee and trust ownership and how each pays out.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard · 2014 · African American co-operative economics, a history largely written out.
Nathan Schneider · 2018 · Platform co-operativism and the revival of member ownership.