Business Conversions to Worker Cooperatives—Insights and Readiness Factors for Owners and Employees

Case Studies: Business Conversions to Worker Cooperatives—Insights and Readiness Factors for Owners and Employees

Alison Lingane
Shannon Rieger
April 2015

In her report for the Democracy Collaborative, Worker Cooperatives: Pathways to Scale, Project Equity's Hilary Abell identified the conversion of successful existing businesses to democratic ownership as a key strategic path to a larger worker cooperative sector in the United States.  Now, her colleague and Project Equity co-founder Alison Lingane, together with Shannon Rieger, provides a powerful collection of case studies aimed at helping owners, employees, and practitioners navigate the practical issues around worker cooperative conversions.   

 

 

 

 

 

Big Timberworks
Namaste Solar
Pattycake Bakery
Real Pickles
Select Machine
Local Flavor
Collective Copies
New Era Windows
Taste of Denmark
Island Employee Cooperative
Simple Diaper & Linen
Center Point Counseling

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