Publications

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Worker-Owned Cooperatives
	Home Care Cooperatives: Worker Ownership in Focus By Julie Whitaker, Stu Schneider, and Margaret Bau. Wisconsin Long-Term Care Workforce Alliance, February 2005. (8 pgs.). Cooperative ownership of home care and home health agencies is a growing trend. For those unfamiliar with cooperatives, the authors provide an easy-to-read introduction to cooperatives, how they are structured, and their benefits for workers and consumers.
	We Are the Roots By Ruth Glasser and Jeremy Brecher. University of California Center for Cooperatives, 2002. (130 pgs.) $5.00 + shipping and handling. We Are the Roots tells the compelling story of Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), a highly successful worker-owned home care agency. Told in the voices of managers and workers who have nourished the growth of a vibrant community, We Are the Roots provides ample evidence that many workers choose to become home health aides because the work is rewarding and meaningful, CHCA's culture of cooperation, caring, and learning has sustained its workers through tremendous growth and change over 17 years. To order, click here
	The Cooperative Home Care Associates: A Case Study of a Sectoral Employment Development Approach By Anne Inserra, Maureen Conway and John Rodat, The Aspen Institute, February 2002. (86pgs.) The Aspen Institute has used Cooperative Home Care Associates and its affiliation with PHI to demonstrate the success of industry-based workforce development strategies. The case study covers industry context, CHCA's organizational strategy, its training program, and lessons learned through PHI's efforts to replicate CHCA's great success as a worker-owned home care agency.
	Quality Care Partners: A Case Study By Karen Kahn, August 2000. (24pgs.) This case study traces the early development of a home care cooperative, initiated as an industry-based economic development project, in Manchester, New Hampshire.