Thinking of selling your business? Or starting a business? You may want to consider a worker cooperative. This type of business structure is different from a consumer cooperative, where customers each ...

The number of worker cooperatives has tripled in the last three years, according to an unreleased report by the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS). The businesses, which are ...

Divina Taveras, 53, moved from the Dominican Republic with her daughter in 2001 to New York City. Every job she found working in restaurants and cleaning private homes had a challenge—low wages, ...

For entrepreneurs who don’t want to start and run a company on their own, community-focused co-ops may be the path forward. In the traditional style of business, employees don’t have as much say in ...

Nine veteran employees of The Wine Source closed on a deal earlier this week to become owners of the Hampden beer, wine and spirits emporium. Just a few weeks earlier — and two blocks down 36th Street ...

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, a 100-percent worker-owned and worker-managed company, processes about 20 million pounds of laundry annually, most of it for anchor institution the Cleveland Clinic.

While the number of tech worker co-operatives is on the up, the approach does have its pros and cons. While still far from widespread, tech worker co-operatives are starting to gain momentum. This is ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Kitty Bernardo’s first job as a bartender was at Corner Tavern, ...

France's far-right political party, known as National Rally, is preparing to introduce legislation to bring back legal brothels, according to French newspaper Le Monde. Under a bill being prepared by ...