Introduction, by Bruno Roelants
Chapter 1: Worker cooperatives within the wider cooperative movement: importance, evolution and the making of universal standards, by Bruno Roelants
INDIA
Chapter 2: Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society: A Century of Excellence, by Prof. Saji Gopinath
KENYA
Chapter 3: Kigro Recyclers Worker Cooperative: bringing workers out of the informal economy, by Pamela Kaburu and Ashley Holst
MOROCCO
Chapter 4: At-Tawafouk Cooperative: the unusual story of a Moroccan worker cooperative for waste collection and processing, by Slimane Lhaji
GREECE
Chapter 5: From workers’ struggle to workers’ control through a cooperative: the VIOME case in Greece, by Vangelis Vragoteris
FRANCE
Chapter 6: Introduction to the French worker cooperatives (SCOP), by Lynda-May Azibi
Chapter 7: Ethiquable, the path to cooperative fairtrade, by Lynda-May Azibi
Chapter 8: Parcs & Sports, an emblematic worker buyout 40 years ago, today an innovative business, by Lynda-May Azibi
Chapter 9: Quonex Alsatel, an ICT business taken over by its staff, by Lynda-May Azibi
Chapter 10: Ardelaine, a local development cooperative, by Béatrice Barras
SPAIN
Chapter 11: Worker cooperatives in Spain: review of their impressive growth over the last decades, by Paloma Arroyo
Chapter 12: Agresta Cooperative Society: a relentless search for forestry solutions to achieve a more liveable society, applying the Cooperative Principles, by Paloma Arroyo Sanchez
Chapter 13: Gredos San Diego Cooperative Society: education is “the basis for achieving, among us all, a more supportive, innovative society, capable, fair and free”, by Paloma Arroyo Sanchez
Chapter 14: The Mondragon Group, one of the most important examples of entrepreneurial cooperation between cooperatives, by Ander Etxeberria Otadui
ITALY
Chapter 15: Italian social cooperatives, a reality emerging from worker cooperatives, by Giuseppe Guerini
Chapter 16: Cauto Social Cooperative: “do, learn, share”, by Giuseppe Guerini
Chapter 17: GOEL Social Cooperative Consortium: struggling successfully against the Calabrian mafia, by Giuseppe Guerini
Chapter 18: A unique support system for worker buyouts: The Marcora Law and CFI, by Alessandro Viola and Mauro Frangi
UNITED KINGDOM
Chapter 19: The national worker cooperative background, by Siôn Whellens
Chapter 20: Calvert’s North Star Press Ltd: how a printing workshop was reborn, by Siôn Whellens
SWEDEN
Chapter 21: Vägen Ut! (The Way Out): a “social worker cooperative” for work integration, by Sven Bartilsson
JAPAN
Chapter 22: The worker cooperative movement in Japan, by Osamu Nakano
Chapter 23: Central Worker Cooperative: combining services of general interest and work integration of disadvantaged persons, by Osamu Nakano
Chapter 24: Creators 440Hz: the Democratic Way of Living – From Democratic Education to Democratic Work, by Kageki Asakura
SOUTH KOREA
Chapter 25: Worker cooperatives in South Korea, by Hyungsik Eum
Chapter 26: Happy-Bridge cooperative, by Seungkwon Jang
CANADA
Chapter 27: Worker Cooperative History and Context in Canada, by Hazel Corcoran
Chapter 28: Pivot: an architectural cooperative engaged in the community, by Adriana Menghi, Suzanne Doucet, Angelica Peraza (Pivot) and Isabel Faubert Mailloux (Réseau COOP)
USA
Chapter 29: Worker Cooperatives in the United States of America, by Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and John Jay
Chapter 30: Cooperative Home Care Associates: worker cooperative development and unionisation hand in hand, by Sanjay Pinto
Chapter 31: The Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives: a group of bakery worker cooperatives inspired by Mondragon, by Joe Marraffino
BRAZIL
Chapter 32: Uniforja – a story that has been built up for 24 years by workers in a self-management system, byMaurício da Costa and Arildo Mota Lopes
URUGUAY
Chapter 33: “La Diaria” cooperative: Uruguay’s second daily newspaper, by Gabriel Isola
NEW GENERATION COOPERATIVES
Chapter 34: Networks of IT worker cooperatives in Argentina and globally: FACTTIC and PATIO, by Nicolas Dimarco & Lucila Dominguez
CONCLUSIONS, by Bruno Roelants