No Bosses Here: A Manual for Working Cooperatively

Vocations for Social Change 33rd Anniversary Reprint with Permission from Levellers Press 2009, paperback SKU:  9781937146337   No Bosses Here is a "how to do it" manual which tells people how to start their own worker controlled co-operative workplace. The manual describes the concept of a collective in which all members share decision making. It then tells how to form a collective, how to set up the decision-making structure, and how to deal with the interpersonal problems that come up in a co-operative workplaces. Chapters and appendices, cover hiring and firing, the relationship of collectives to the social and change movement, book-keeping, pricing, and incorporation. Vocations for Social Change, the author and publisher of this book, is a five year old counseling and information sharing collective that has worked with most of the collectives in the Boston area.