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Link to Forms of Business Organizations

The Employee Ownership 100:  America's Largest Majority Employee-Owned Companies (July 2018)

Forms of Employee or Worker Ownership

• Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP)  (6,700 in the U.S.)

• ESOPs by the Numbers (March 2018)
  

• Worker Cooperatives (300 in the U.S.)

Timeline of the History of American Worker owned Companies, ESOP Partners 

Worker Cooperatives:  Building Democracy in the Workplace, WikiTribune (September 2018)

How Massachusetts is Working to Get Retiring Business Owners to let Their Employees to Take Over, Fast Company (April 9, 2019) 

Harpoon Brewery is an example of a employee-owned business in Massachusetts

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Worker-Owned Companies as an Example of Democratic Organizations

Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies, Harvard Business Review (August 8, 2018)

• About 17 million people, or 12% of the U.S. workforce, are employed at variations of worker-owned enterprises.

• These companies are not just small groups of artisans or craft workers. Agricultural cooperatives Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray have become major players in dairy production and fruit farming, earning hundreds of millions in annual revenue.

• And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. Gore and Associates, are leaders in their industries.

• The largest industrial federation of worker cooperatives in the world, Mondragon Corporation, is one of Spain’s top 10 multinationals, with about $13 billion in revenue from 105 cooperatives, and 75,000 employees stretching across Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States.

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This Coffee Runs on Democracy

• Rock City Coffee Officially Becomes a Worker Cooperative, Rockland Maine (March 15, 2018)

African-American Run Co-ops 

• A History of Black Run Co-ops
• The Mandala Grocery Cooperative, West Oakland, California, 2009