Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Department
Communication Studies
Department
Communication Studies
Abstract
This article reports on a survey of co-operatives in the cultural and technology sectors in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Creative industries are a growth area for new cooperativism, with more than a quarter of surveyed co-operatives in operation for less than five years. While the findings show that co-operation is a promising strategy for countering individualised experiences of work, for democratising workplaces, and for facilitating satisfying work in creative industries, they also reveal significant challenges which individual co-operatives and the wider co-operative movement must confront for cooperativism to have a sustainable and inclusive future in the cultural and technology sectors.
Recommended Citation
de Peuter, G., Dreyer, B., Sandoval, M., & Szaflarska, A. (2022). Cooperativism in cultural and tech sectors: Promises and challenges. Journal of Co-operative Studies, 55(3), 57-64.
Comments
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License subject to a six-month embargo after the article is published in the Journal.