This is the first legal article, to the author’s knowledge, to apply social movement theory to the foundation of worker cooperatives in the United States. It also begins a series of articles with three goals. First, the application of social movement theory to worker cooperatives should...

The global Covid pandemic and the Third Reconstruction and renewed labor activism within the U.S. challenge us to find more humane, sustainable, and egalitarian ways of living and working. Those in the labor movement and the cooperative movement, who have been working to build union...