Why is it possible for an unprofitable enterprise to become a thriving worker cooperative?
Being viable and being profitable are two very different things, both in the short and long term. Taking the criterion of profitability as a guide for the development of companies increasingly confronts them with their own sustainability and that of their environment. The alternative can only come from associated work.
Managing the worker cooperative through the overcoming of challenges
Work and management that is based on tackling challenges sustains the types of incentives and logic that mobilize efforts and encourage workers to take the courageous leap to become a cooperative. Workers thus derive happiness from contributing and from being able to produce the extraordinary.
The morality of diets
Are you a better person for not eating meat, and does dietary restriction make you more progressive or more ‘sensitive’? There is a long history behind attaching morality to diet. It is a history that should be known because what if, in reality, what is truly immoral is, for example, veganism?
Resilience and cooperativism
Cooperatives build the resilience of human communities that are very different from each other and this is because, when needs and commitment to a cause come together, we need to have at our disposal a mechanical element that allows us to respond and scale up a communitarian response as quickly as possible.