A CONVERSATION ABOUT WORKER CO-OPERATIVES

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

A CONVERSATION ABOUT WORKER CO-OPERATIVES

Part of A Potential Toronto
Initiated by Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (TSCI)
More info: www.tsci.ca | tscinquiry@gmail.com
Thursday, 15 November 2007
7:30 - 9:30pm

Toronto Free Gallery
660 Queen St. East
(w. of Broadview, e. of the Don Valley Parkway)

'A Potential Toronto' wrap party immediately afterwards, with DJs Dorian and Dorian.

Go here for more info.

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What is this blog about?

This blog is the online presence for Social Science 4041.6, Alternative Economic Firms and Organizations, a fourth year Business and Society seminar course at York University. It serves as the website for course information, as well as being a site for seminar participants to exchange ideas about and share links to Southern Ontario's social economic sector. Ultimately, the blog serves as a place to work out some of the theories and debates we will be engaging with throughout the course and will, we hope, eventually turn into an emerging and useful repository for the social economy sector.

Lecture and Seminar Supplements

Week 22: Download supplemental reading for today here: Marcelo Vieta, "The Worker-Recovered Enterprises in Argentina, 1997-2007: Socio-Economic Conjunctures, New Forms of Worker-Co-operativism, and the Innovations and Challenges of Self-Management"
Week 18: Download lecture notes on Craig (1992) Chs. 2 and 3 here. Download new reading for this week here: Quarter, Jack. "An Overview to Co-operatives"
Week 17: Download the Four Typologies of Cooperatives chart here
Week 16: Download the Social Economy comparison chart here
Week 15 course kit readings: McDowell, Linda. "Father and Ford Revisited: Gender, Class, and Employment Change in the New Millennium" :: Harvey, David. "Fordism" and "From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation"
Weeks 10-13: Defining the social economy, non-profit organizations, and co-operatives. Please take not of the similarity and differences between non-profits and co-operatives, the different types of co-operatives, where they fit into Melnyk's "traditions" of co-ops, and the roles of non-profits and co-ops in the social economy.
Weeks 4-7 wrap-up (Part 2: Outline the Issues): Group summaries of and questions inspired by Cavanagh & Mander (forthcoming)
Seminar 3, Week 4: The Corporation, film website and supplemental materials
Seminar 3, Week 4: Exercise instructions and bg reading for class debate on Women Against Poverty's June 3 housing action
Lecture 1, Week's 1-3: Marx, Alienation, and Capital 101

Required Research Documents

Below are the Division of Social Science's and the Faculty of Art's required Ethics Form and the customized Consent Form you'll need to fill out and submit to Marcelo Vieta for the Winter 2008 research projects. Download them and fill them out and keep a copy to submit to Marcelo Vieta after you have completed your interviews:

Faculty of Arts Ethics Form you are to fill out per interviewee

Informed Consent Form you are to get your interviewee to sign before conducting the interview

Go here for more information concerning course-related research involving human participants (York Faculty of Arts)

Alternative Economic Firms and Organizations :: Social Science 4041.6 (York University)

Tuesday, November 13, 2007