“…Worker-owned cooperatives are structured to give workers a vote on their organization’s governance, and they explicitly prioritize workers’ interests, and often other social or environmental goals as well (Paranque & Willmott, 2014; Rothschild, 2009). Research has shown that, relative to traditional firms, cooperatives more often prioritize maintaining employment in times of financial stress and therefore help stabilize employment during crises (Delbono & Regianni, 2013; Garcia-Louzao, 2021). Recent research has also found that cooperative forms of organizing foster social trust (Sabatini, Modena, & Tortia, 2012), can make work less alienating (Kociatkiewicz, Kostera, & Parker, 2021), promote the values of collectivity, egalitarianism, and autonomy in a workforce, and create spaces in which diverse opinions can flourish and be productively debated (Kokkinidis, 2015).…”