Publications

Starting a Worker Cooperative:
A brief outline of the key steps in starting a worker cooperative. $2.00

Putting Democracy To Work; Second Edition Frank T. Adams and Gary B. Hansen.
A practical guide for starting worker-owned businesses. 298 Pages. $19.95 (plus $3.98 postage)

The Design of Governance Systems For Small Worker Cooperatives: Janet Saglio and Richard Hackman (Harvard Business School), Rev.1992.
This paper discusses the governance of small worker cooperatives, presenting a model for ensuring that individual rights of members are protected and exercised. 27 pages. $5.00

Worker Cooperatives A Basic Orientation:
A sample study guide, for use individually or in groups, on the basics of worker cooperatives. 20 pages. $5.00

Illustrated Guide To The Internal Capital Accounts System:
This practical guide explains the ins and outs of the capital accounts system and how it is used to distribute profits in a worker cooperative. 30 pages. $6.00

ICA Model Bylaws For A Worker Cooperative:
This loose-leaf includes model bylaws for a worker cooperative with a Mondragon type legal structure, along with detailed annotations, explanations, and model forms. Also available on diskette. Book $95.00 (plus $5.25 postage) Diskette $50.00

The Massachusetts Law For Worker Cooperatives: MGL Chapter 157A: Peter Pitegoff. Explanation, test, and legislative history of the first American statute exclusively for worker cooperatives and used as a model for similar laws enacted in CT, ME, VT, WA, OR, and NY. 17 pages. $5.00

Bringing Your Employees Into The Business: An Employee Ownership Handbook for Small Business. Daniel Bell.
This handbook outlines the various ways small business owners can sell all (or part) of their business to the employees, and the benefits of doing so.Â $9.95 (plus $2.00 postage)

ESOPs, Unions,& The Rank and File: Frank T. Adams and Gary B Hansen.
A useful reference for union members in businesses with ESOPs. 63 pages. $3.00

The Legitimate Opposition At Work: David Ellerman.
This paper discusses a role for unions in large, worker-managed firms and other aspects of democratic structure. $3.00

Participatory Employee Ownership: How It Works. John Logue, et al.
This handbook discusses the experiences of a number of successful ESOP companies and offers a practical guide for implementing participatory employee ownership. $15.00 (plus $2.75 postage)

Getting To Work: ICA’s Social Purpose Staffing Companies. Susan Eisenberg.
This ICA case study profiles the unique history and character of each of the companies developed to date and captures the key points common to their experience and success. 45 pages (2003) $5.00
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Cooperative Home Care Associates: From Working Poor To Working Class. Frank Adams, Fred Gordon, & Richard Shirey.
This ICA case study chronicles the success of the South Bronx worker-owned home health care company that has become a model for similar companies in other inner city communities. 18 pages (1991) $5.00

Workers’ Owned Sewing Company: Making The Eagle Fly Friday: Frank Adams & Richard Shirey.
This ICA case study chronicles the history of this successful, worker cooperative from its creation in 1978 to the reception of its General Manager at the White House in 1993. $5.00

Las Flores Metalarte: Rebecca Bauen.
An ICA case study in English and Spanish of the development of a successful community-based, worker controlled furniture factory in rural Puerto Rico. (1996) $6.00

Marland Mold: Mark Miller.
This case study describes how the union employees of a mold maker in western Massachusetts purchased their company rather than see it closed and managed to double the size of the firm. (2002) $6.00

Employee Ownership: The Vehicle For Community Development and Local Economic Control: James Megson and Michael O’Toole. 1993.
This paper discusses some of the underlying reasons for the economic decline of our neighborhoods and shows how employee ownership can be used as a strategy for rebuilding the economic base in an equitable and sustainable way. Appendices include several brief case studies and descriptions of ESOP and co-op tax benefits. 25 pages. $5.00

Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of The Worker Cooperative Complex: William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte.
The most authoritative and up-to-date (1991) description of the organizational development and current status of the Mondragon cooperatives.

We Build The Road As We Travel: Roy Morrison
The story of the Mondragon cooperatives and how more than 21,000 workers have taken control over their communities and lives. 279 pages. (1991) $16.95

An Economy of Hope:
An annotated national directory of worker co-ops, democratic ESOPs, sustainable enterprises, support organizations & resources. 150 pages. $12.95

The Directory of Workers’ Enterprises in North America:
1991 listing of 304 firms owned by a total of 102,343 workers with annual sales of nearly $10 billion. 65 pages. $10.00

The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place.Â John Abrams.
The Company We Keep is an inspiring account of the formation and evolution of South Mountain Company, a worker-owned construction company. The book explores how business can be used as a force for social change in a community and is a must read for anyone interested in worker cooperatives and socially responsible business practices. $21.00 Hardcover (plus $5.00 shipping and handling)

The Right Jobs: Identifying Career Advancement Opportunities for Low-Skilled Workers. Susan Goldberger, Newell Lessell, Radha Roy Biswas.
The Right Jobs is designed as a guide for workforce development practitioners and presents a systematic approach to evaluating occupations in terms of earnings, advancement potential, and accessibility. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Right Jobs applies a series of screens that yields a list of 16 specific occupations that hold good potential for lifting thousands of Americans out of poverty into the middle class. 53 pages. (2005)
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