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Just Health: Case Studies of Worker Cooperatives in Health and Care Sectors

Adria Scharf, Adrienne Eaton, Camille Kerr, Minsun Ji, Sanjay Pinto | January, 2023

How we structure ownership and work in healthcare matters. As a society, we underpay and under-support—under-care-for—the very workers we rely on to provide health and care services to others. The COVID-19 pandemic briefly spotlighted this fact as health workers braved risks to care for the vulnerable. The worst of that crisis has passed—but the extractive … Read More

Five Home Care Cooperatives in Washington State

Adria Scharf | December, 2022

No other state has as many individual home care cooperatives in operation as Washington. Although small and limited to date to serving the private pay market, Washington’s home care cooperatives suggest that “another way is possible” for organizing home care provision in the state. The business model they are piloting breaks with dominant, extractive, models … Read More

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