A component of our mission is to promote the development of a cooperative economy within Aberdeen, in order to sustain the city post-oil.
The template for accomplishing this was pioneered in Cleveland Ohio:
“In 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession, a small laundry opened in one of the most depressed neighborhoods in the poverty-stricken city of Cleveland. This seemingly obscure event proved to be a large salvo in what is slowly becoming a national dialogue on the future of wealth democratization in America.”
The following links (in bright white) provide a vast repository of information on the Cleveland Model, with much of it focused on Preston’s efforts to implement it here in the UK. Click on each one in order to learn more:
What next for the Preston Model? Investing in worker owned co-operatives in the city.
UCLan and partners keen to establish Preston Co-operative Development Network.
Preston Model setting standard for Labour councils across country, says Shadow Chancellor McDonnell.
In an era of brutal cuts, one ordinary place has the imagination to fight back.
In 2011 Preston hit rock bottom. Then it took back control.
Preston named as most improved city in UK.
How Preston Council claim they are starting a financial revolution.
Could Preston provide a new economic model for Britain’s cities?
THE PRESTON MODEL: MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM OR PROTECTIONIST CONJURING TRICK?
Cllr Matthew Brown on the Preston Model and the economics of the imagination.
How one city became an unlikely laboratory for Corbynomics.
The Preston model: UK takes lessons in recovery from rust-belt Cleveland.
How Preston – the UK’s “most improved city” – became a success story for Corbynomics.
The Preston Model of Community Wealth Building in the UK.
Local democracy with attitude: the Preston model and how it can reduce inequality.
The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth.
Cleveland’s cooperatives show us how to solve the problems of deindustrialisation.
Thoroughly green and worker-owned, co-ops are a vibrant response to economic distress.
Learning From the Cleveland Model: Notes on the Next American Revolution.
In Cleveland, co-op model finds hope in employers rooted in the city.