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Analysis of International Trends in Worker Co-operatives

Trent Craddock and Sarah Kennedy
Co-operatives Secretariat

Summary

This paper attempts to present an analysis of recent trends in worker co-operatives in selected representative countries - Canada, the USA, Argentina, the UK, France, Spain, and Zimbabwe. The paper presents statistical information regarding worker co-operatives that is based on either business registry data or survey data. However, in some countries neither is available with the result that available statistics are based on estimates that are undertaken at irregular intervals