CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Sanderson, Travis |
|---|---|
| Title | Sparking Solidarity: Federal, State, and Local Policy Interventions to Incentivize the Creation of Worker Cooperatives in the United States |
| Summary | Globally, market crises have both produced and been diffused by worker cooperatives. Cooperatives, as part of the broader solidarity economy, represent an alternative economic model to one based on competition and have been recognized by the international community as key to sustainable development. However, the prevalence of worker cooperatives across the world is not even. Despite global recognition, worker cooperatives remain relatively uncommon in both policy research and in the United States. This thesis aims to examine this nexus and elucidate policy interventions at federal, state, and local levels based on both global comparative analysis of cooperative development policy and the situated knowledge of solidarity economy actors and policymakers. The results demonstrate that while federal intervention is not feasible, both state and local policy interventions can incentivize the creation of worker cooperatives. These results provide a roadmap to policy interventions based on political conditions to inform theories on how policy can further strengthen the solidarity economy. |
| Supervisor | Granger, Marie-Pierre |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/sanderson_travis.pdf |
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