- Worker co-op buys three Stonington businesses, saves 62 jobs, by James McCarthy, MaineBiz, June 18, 2014
- Employees of Burnt Cove Market, V&S Variety and Pharmacy and The Galley form cooperative, plan to purchase businesses, by Jessica Brophy, Island Ad-Vantages, January 23, 2014
- A two-part series by Andy O’Brien on Maine’s aging demographics and employee-owned businesses in Maine’s Free Press,
- Part 1: Facing retirement, some business owners consider selling to employees, January 23, 2014. Taking a look at ESOPs
- Part 2: The worker cooperative movement expands into Maine, February 20, 2014. Takes a look at CDI’s BOS program, which is encouraging retiring business owners to consider worker cooperatives as an alternative to traditional business successions.
- Why your employees should own your business, by John Abrams.
- John Abrams is founder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a 39-year-old employee owned architecture, engineering, building, and renewable energy company. John’s book Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, was published by Chelsea Green Publishing in 2008.
- Making a New Economy: Getting Cooperative, by David Morgan, TruthOut, Saturday, March 16, 2013
- A Creative Way to Sell Your Business, by Barbara Taylor, New York Times, October 29, 2010
- The Economy: Under New Ownership, by Marjorie Kelly, YES! Magazine, February 19, 2013
- To jumpstart US job creation, turn workers into owners, by Melissa Hoover and Beadsie Woo, Christian Science Monitor, January 11, 2010
- An Exit Strategy for Colorado’s Entrepreneurs, by Miller Hudson, Colorado Statesman, November 4, 2013
- The Legacy of the Boomer Boss, by Gar Alperovitz, New York Times, July 5, 2013
- Why Thomas Jefferson Favored Profit Sharing, by David Cay Johnston, Newsweek, February 4, 2014
See also the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Democracy at Work Institute, and ICA Group.
