Precarious labour: Interview with San Precario Connection organizer Alessandro Delfanti
| September 11, 2010The Toronto anarchist assembly and bookfair
Location
THE TORONTO ANARCHIST ASSEMBLY AND BOOKFAIR
April 9, 10, 11 2010
**SCHEDULE**
FRIDAY APRIL 9, 7 to 9 p.m.
A book launch with a panel discussion on cooperatives in a changing economy
Location
Books:
Cooperatives in a Global Economy: The Challenges of Cooperation Across Borders.
Living Economics: Canadian Perspectives on the Social Economy, Cooperatives, & Community Economic Development.
Panel discussion:
Jack Craig, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology at York University.
Jack Quarter, Professor, OISE, and Director, Social Economy Centre at the University of Toronto.
Sally Miller, Director, West End Food Coop, and author of Edible Action.
Union co-ops the future of labour?
A new collaboration between North America's largest industrial union and the world's largest worker-owned co-operative has reinvigorated proponents of an alternative to top-down business models. Unions and co-ops also look to such partnerships as a way to strengthen their respective memberships.
West End Food Co-op Launch Event
Location
LOCAL FOOD FOR LOCAL TASTES
The launch of the West End Food Co-op's bond campaign on November 2nd
Join the West End Food Co-op for music, food and discussion at our upcoming launch event with community members, supporters and partners! Food activists, farmers, artisans, non-profit organizations and others have come together to create the West End Food Co-op: an innovative non-profit cooperative of multiple stakeholders, which plans to open a community owned food store in late 2010 or early 2011.
The cure for layoffs: Fire the boss
In 2004 we made a documentary called The Take about Argentina's movement of worker-run businesses. In the wake of the country's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, thousands of workers walked into their shuttered factories and put them back into production as worker cooperatives. Abandoned by bosses and politicians, they regained unpaid wages and severance while reclaiming their jobs.
As we toured Europe and North America with the film, every Q&A ended up with the question, That's all very well in Argentina, but could that ever happen here?