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Month: April 2015

Yugoslavia, ‘co-operatives’ and worker’s self-management

Posted on 3 April, 2015 by preorg

When I’ve talked about what a co-operative economy might look like I’ve had it said to me a few times that Yugoslavia, back when it was Yugoslavia, had an economy made up of co-operatives and that this experiment didn’t go very well. It turned out this wasn’t really true, but I discovered it can be…

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Using established housing co-ops to start new housing co-ops

Posted on 3 April, 20153 April, 2015 by preorg

I recently decided to look into how established housing co-ops with resources and access to better interest rates might help create new housing co-ops. Originally I imagined a kind of hire-purchase agreement between the new co-op and mother co-op, in which the mother co-op would buy the building, then lease it to the new co-op….

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