Title: Cooperatives are an intriguing business model for reasons addressed in a recent <i>New York Times</i> article [1] as well as a recent documentary film called <i>Shift Change</i> [2]. The discussion sparked by Thomas Piketty&#x27;s <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> [3] provides further reasons for seeking out an alternative business model. Wikipedia has a good entry on the worker coop model [4].<p>I&#x27;ve come across Quilted [5] and Colab [6], two worker-owned and run cooperatives working in the tech space in the U.S. Both have a fairly impressive lineup of worker-owners and compelling portfolios, indicating that the model can really work.<p>Does anyone know of other examples of such coops, both in the U.S. and around the world?<p>1: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;who-needs-a-boss.html<p>2: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shiftchange.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;<p>3: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7618971<p>4: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Worker_cooperative<p>5: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quilted.coop&#x2F;<p>6: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.colab.coop&#x2F;about
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