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A worker co-op roundtable from the International Co-operative Governance Symposium discussing sociocracy, hierarchy, flat governance, and cooperative practice.
Roundtables capture the lived tensions of sociocracy in worker co-ops, including hierarchy, scale, member participation, and practical adaptation.
Members and advisors who want practitioner discussion rather than only written guidance.
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A detailed case study of Unicorn Grocery, a worker-owned grocery co-op in Manchester using sociocracy in its governance.
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A Co-operatives UK page highlighting co-ops that have implemented sociocracy, including Equal Care Co-operative, Outlandish, Unicorn Grocery, VME, and others.
This freely available recording brings together practitioners from Unicorn Grocery, the Northwest Cooperative Development Center, and Co-op Culture to discuss sociocracy, hierarchy, and worker-coop governance across U.S. and UK contexts. GEO's repost still includes the embedded video and identifies the June 19, 2021 symposium session and speakers.
Choose it for candid practitioner discussion rather than step-by-step instruction; the conversation reflects the speakers' organizations and experience, not a representative study of worker co-ops. The session's cross-jurisdiction examples also should not be read as legal guidance.