From Istanbul to Barcelona, the co-operative movement is flourishing as employees revive what the bosses buried A 19th-century slogan is getting a 21st-century makeover. The workers of the world really are uniting. At least, some of them are.The economic meltdown unleashed by the 2008 financial crisis hit southern Europe especially hard, sending manufacturing output plunging and unemployment soaring. Countless factories shut their gates. But some workers at perhaps as many as 500 sites across the continent – a majority in Spain, but also in France, Italy, Greece, and Turkey – have refused to accept the corporate kiss of death. Continue reading...
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