Cooperative Movement

The first installment of a book on student co-op history by NASCO's former Executive Director, Jim Jones.

A history of NASCO from inception to the present.

This is a 2007 study of housing cooperatives in the upper Midwest (in Madison, Chicago and Iowa City) entitled 'Housing Cooperatives and Health'. It aims to investigate the relationships between living in a housing cooperatives and tenant-shareholders' physical and emotional health. Questions and comments welcome. Contact Jeff Bessmer (jeffbessmer@gmail.com).

This is a PowerPoint presentation from a workshop presented at NASCO Institute 2010 by Kim Penna from College Houses and Erin Hancock of the Canadian Cooperative Association.

This presentation was given by Steve Dubb of the Democracy Collaborative at NASCO's 2008 Cooperative Education and Training Institute.

An introduction to Brotherhood Economics (Toyohiko Kagawa) and the overlap between cooperative principles and Christianity. This essay was written by Rev. William Alfred Clint (1906-1980).

This workshop was presented by Jolan Rivera of SNHU's School of Community Economic Development at NASCO's 2008 Cooperative Education and Training Institute.

These funny facts are adapted from the Co-op Union, UK's 150 Funny Facts on Co-ops prepared in 1995 for the 150th Anniversary of Rochdale.