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Coop 101: A Guide to Starting a Cooperative

A brief outline of the steps to starting a worker cooperative. Includes values of worker coops and timeline graphics of the planning and implementation stages

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Organization: Cooperative Development Institute
Date: 12/15/2022
Resource Type: Publication
Topic: Economic Justice

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