workers' cooperative

British  

noun

1. See cooperative

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Example Sentences

Ag Biome is one of an array of modern companies and organizations that have experimented with or embraced a flat, or nonhierarchical, corporate structure; other examples include Suma, a wholesale company and workers’ cooperative, and the video game studio Valve.

From New York Times

I guess it's a workers' cooperative, where people write poetry in the evenings.

From Salon

On Monday, Thorn — who has co-owned Maximum Fun with his wife since it was incorporated 2011 — announced his company would become a workers cooperative, a novel business model in the podcast industry, but one that has been tried by many small businesses including bakeries and pizza places.

From Los Angeles Times

Today the cloth maker employs just 18 workers, and owns the factory’s machines, though not the premises, which went into the hands of liquidators after the workers’ cooperative that ran the mill went bankrupt in 2011.

From New York Times

Paul Clearfire, who moved there in 2003 after Beamer left Breitenbush under the control of a workers’ cooperative, equated the retreat to a fairyland.

From Los Angeles Times