Related Interest
about the bookabout
With over 17,000 members, Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Cooperative is the country’s largest collectively owned and managed grocery store and as such, the largest of its kind to boycott the sale of Israeli products. How did the coop, whose membership could qualify it as its own microstastical area, come to (relative) alignment? What does this decision tell us about governance, autonomy, and ownership of the institutions we run together?
About The Author / Editor
Lauren Hudson is a cooperative and Solidarity Economy organizer and researcher in New York City. She is a cofounder of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC, a former collective member of SolidarityNYC, and a current collective member of the Solidarity Economy Principles Project. She holds a doctorate in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Because of the continued disinvestment in higher education, Lauren has also had the opportunity to teach courses in feminist urban geography and Geographic Information Systems at Sarah Lawrence College, Parsons, Hunter College, Medgar Evers College, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Now, after ten years of adjuncting, Lauren is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies where she teaches Economic Democracy as part of their Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership program.
Preview
Coming Soon.
in the media
Related Interest
Related Interest
about the bookabout
With over 17,000 members, Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Cooperative is the country’s largest collectively owned and managed grocery store and as such, the largest of its kind to boycott the sale of Israeli products. How did the coop, whose membership could qualify it as its own microstastical area, come to (relative) alignment? What does this decision tell us about governance, autonomy, and ownership of the institutions we run together?
About The Author / Editor
Lauren Hudson is a cooperative and Solidarity Economy organizer and researcher in New York City. She is a cofounder of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC, a former collective member of SolidarityNYC, and a current collective member of the Solidarity Economy Principles Project. She holds a doctorate in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Because of the continued disinvestment in higher education, Lauren has also had the opportunity to teach courses in feminist urban geography and Geographic Information Systems at Sarah Lawrence College, Parsons, Hunter College, Medgar Evers College, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Now, after ten years of adjuncting, Lauren is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies where she teaches Economic Democracy as part of their Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership program.
Preview
Coming Soon.