Reading Pool

Legend

🔉 Audio clips :speaker:

📚 Books :books:

📄 PDF reports or articles :page_facing_up:

🎬 Videos :clapper:

🌐 Web sites or online resources :globe_with_meridians:

7 International Co-operative Principles:

• 🌐 ICA Cooperative identity, values & principles
• 🌐 ICA Guidance Notes to the Co-operative Principles
• 🌐 Willy Street Seven Cooperative Principles
• 🌐 Grassroots Economic Organizing: The Cooperative Principles, the Common Good, and Solidarity

Tech Worker Co-ops:

• 📄 A technology freelancer's guide to starting a worker's coop
• 🔉 Soundcloud Podcast: Worker Cooperatives: Widening Spheres of Democracy
• 🌐 Tech Worker Co-op Repo: Incredible list of resources including a db of active tech co-ops worldwide
• 🌐 Vibes Theory of Organization Design - Enspiral
  • identifies lots of tensions while building organizational culture
• 🌐 Enspiral Handbook
  • * Important People Agreement**
  • Resource Git for Beginners
  • Related Root Systems "Pod"
• 🌐 Lab.coop Reading List
• 📄 Balancing Performance with Principles in Coops and Mutuals, Report by Ernst and Young

Civics, Tech, Politics:

• 🌐 Paul Frazee "Information Civics" (Wayback Machine, Github)
• 📄 Langdon Winner "Do Artifacts have Politics"
• 🌐 Diana Nucera "Two-way Streets: Forging the Paths Towards Participatory Civic Technology"
• 🌐 Design Justice Principles
• 🌐 From "Openness" to Justice
• 📄 Indigenous Cooperatives in Canada: The Complex Relationship Between Cooperatives, Community Economic Development, Colonization, and Culture

Collaboration, Methodologies:

• 🌐 Study Collaboration
  • Thinking about novel ways of collaborating between us and others
  • Also, neat links towards the bottom
• 🌐 Patterns for Decentralised Organising
• 🌐 Designing Methodologies 2018, Shannon Mattern
• 🌐 Aspiration Tech Facilication Resources
• 🌐 Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution
• 📚 adrienne maree brown (2017) Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
• 🌐 Loconomics Cooperative Bylaws
• 🌐 Waag Co-creation Toolkit
• 🌐 El LleialTec: Pla de Sobirania Tecnològica per l'acció comunitària (Google translated)

New Economies:

• 🌐 Center for Global Justice: Solidarity Economy Directory
• 🌐 The Future of Social Economy Leadership and Organizational Composition in Canada: Demand from Demographics, and Difference through Diversity

Commons, Anti-capitalism:

• 📚 Elinor Ostrom (1990) Governing the Commons
  • 🌐 8 principles for designing common pool resources
• 📄 JK Gibson-Graham, J Cameron, & S Healy (2016) "Commoning as a postcapitalist politics" In Releasing the Commons: Rethinking the futures of the commons
• 📄 G Caffentzis, S Frederici (2014) "Commons against and beyond capitalism"
• 📄 S Frederici (2011) "Feminism and the politics of the commons"
• 📄 Yochai Benkler Commons-Based Peer Production and Virtue
• 📄 Stavros Stavrides Common Space: The City as Commons
• 🎬 Richard Sennett The Decline of the Skills Society
• 🌐 Scott Alexander Meditations On Moloch (link removed, see explanation)

Why Decentralize?

• 🎬 Sarah Friend Decentralization and Its Discontents at Radical Networks 2018
• 📄 Nathan Schnieder n.d. "Decentralization: An Incomplete Ideology"
• 🌐 Data Together Reading List or Zotero Group

Requirements for co-ops in Canada (Federal and Provincial) (for more see 2018 retreat playbook):

• 📄 Ontario.coop fact sheets
• 🌐 Industry Canada Starting a Federal co-op
• 🌐 Industry Canada Starting an ON co-op
• 🌐 Ontario.coop Starting a co-operative