Essential organizations, tools, and content for understanding worker ownership and organizing.
Building a democratic economy takes more than job boards. Here are the organizations and resources that matter most for understanding worker ownership, cooperative development, and tech organizing.
Start here if you're new to worker ownership and want to understand the fundamentals.
The national association for worker cooperatives. Essential for understanding the landscape and connecting with existing co-ops.
Richard Wolff's organization promoting worker cooperatives. Great educational content on why traditional employment structures fail workers.
Focused specifically on tech co-ops and democratic alternatives to platform capitalism. Highly relevant for tech workers.
Global organization representing cooperatives worldwide. Great for understanding international cooperative principles and movement.
World's largest worker cooperative federation. Proves cooperative businesses can scale and compete globally.
Research and development for democratic economy strategies. Strong on policy and systemic change approaches.
Organizations working to democratize the tech industry through unions and cooperatives.
The tech workers union. Most active in gaming but expanding across the industry.
Practical training for tech worker organizing from the most active union in the space.
Grassroots organization connecting tech workers globally. Good for understanding current organizing efforts.
Local union organizing tech workers in NYC. Check their events for organizing strategies and community building.
Tech workers supporting progressive causes. Bridges tech skills with social justice organizing.
Democratic Socialists organizing in tech. Focus on both workplace organizing and tech's role in society.
Practical training for workplace organizing. Joint project between UE and DSA with excellent educational materials.
Alternative job boards that share similar values, though with different approaches.
Official job board of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Broader than tech but lower volume.
Meaningful work at values-driven organizations including cooperatives, nonprofits, and public benefit corporations. Good mix of sectors beyond tech.
Large database of union job postings across industries. Good for finding unionized positions beyond cooperatives.
Focus on companies with strong social values and worker-friendly practices. Broader than democratic workplaces.
Climate-focused jobs. Not specifically cooperative, but many climate organizations have democratic values.
Podcasts that explore worker ownership, tech criticism, and economic democracy.
Richard Wolff's weekly analysis of economic issues from a worker cooperative perspective. Dense but essential.
Deep dives into cooperative theory and practice. Good for understanding the movement's intellectual foundations.
Tech workers discussing surveillance, labor, and the political economy of technology. Sharp analysis of tech's impact on society.
Critical analysis of tech industry promises and failures. Helps understand why democratic alternatives matter.
Labor organizing stories and analysis. Great for understanding current movements and organizing strategies.