ABOUT CO-OPS
A co-operative is a group of people that gets together to organise collectively for mutual benefit. Work, housing, services, pubs and social centres can all be co-operatively owned and managed.
Co-operation – working together with others rather than competing with them – is as old as history, but modern co-operative businesses have been around for just 200 years. Co-operatives were formed by workers in the 18th century who set up shops to break the monopoly of the large factory bosses supplying overpriced, low quality food to workers. The shops not only provided good food at a decent price, they also provided fair and equitable conditions for those working there.
And it’s in these footsteps that we follow. We are passionate about the power of co-operation and the alternative way of working with each other that co-operatives enable. They offer a solution to the growing sense of powerlessness people feel over business and the economy, giving people control of the businesses they are closest to – whether you shop at them, work at them or supply them. People of all kinds benefit in many different ways through membership of a co-operative, and for us it’s through our work at Leeds Bread Co-op and the livelihood and fulfillment it provides for us as workers.
[media=https://youtu.be/n7iRHHJdM8E]Leeds Bread Co-op
A co-operative is a group of people that gets together to organise collectively for mutual benefit. Work, housing, services, pubs and social centres can all be co-operatively owned and managed.
Co-operation – working together with others rather than competing with them – is as old as history, but modern co-operative businesses have been around for just 200 years. Co-operatives were formed by workers in the 18th century who set up shops to break the monopoly of the large factory bosses supplying overpriced, low quality food to workers. The shops not only provided good food at a decent price, they also provided fair and equitable conditions for those working there.
And it’s in these footsteps that we follow. We are passionate about the power of co-operation and the alternative way of working with each other that co-operatives enable. They offer a solution to the growing sense of powerlessness people feel over business and the economy, giving people control of the businesses they are closest to – whether you shop at them, work at them or supply them. People of all kinds benefit in many different ways through membership of a co-operative, and for us it’s through our work at Leeds Bread Co-op and the livelihood and fulfillment it provides for us as workers.
[media=https://youtu.be/n7iRHHJdM8E]Leeds Bread Co-op
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Roundandroundwego · 61-69
All companies should be coops, that should be out law.
Guitarman123 · 31-35, M
@Roundandroundwego ye we need more people to realise that
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
@Guitarman123 politics is simple but willingly engaging is another matter.
Guitarman123 · 31-35, M
@Roundandroundwego yes indeed, especially when society has been convinced that their interests align with the ruling class
[media=https://youtu.be/cpzWDasqi_Y]Leeds Bread Coop—making bread by hands
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
@markansas echoes?
Is there a high tech nothing not saying anything in here?
Is there a high tech nothing not saying anything in here?
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M