Cooperative economics, an economic system based on the worker cooperative.

Union membership for worker cooperatives gives the enterprise a legitimate standard of operations.

A worker cooperative is a cooperative self-managed by its workers.

Generally, the evidence indicates that worker cooperatives have higher productivity than conventional companies although this difference may be modest in size.

In 2003 it was bought by the employees and became a worker cooperative.

The term may also refer to worker cooperatives in the building trade.

In these tough economic times, are worker cooperatives a better way of doing business?

Chomsky also argues for economic democratization, with the workers themselves controlling the means of production through worker cooperatives.

It later became a religious agricultural worker cooperative, whose residents earned their living growing flowers and vegetables in hothouses.

In these tough times, are there better ways of doing business: worker cooperatives, for example?