First global report on industrial & service cooperatives
Facts, figures, trends & expectations for the future
The first global biannual report on industrial and service cooperatives (2013-2014) is out. Published by CICOPA, the international organization of worker, social and producers’ cooperatives active in industry and services, provides a picture of this worldwide movement.
The close to 65,000 enterprises affiliated to CICOPA member organizations, 95% of them being SMEs, employ over 3 million people. However, there is evidence that this world phenomenon is quantitatively much wider: worker cooperatives, social cooperatives and cooperatives of self-employed producers in industry and services together employ over 16 million people worldwide. The vast majority of these persons are members and, therefore, the owners of their enterprise, which they jointly and democratically control.
The report contains:
- Detailed statistics per continent on employment, workers ownership and enterprise size
- Thorough information per sector of activity
- The latest trends in a cross-country observation
- Main difficulties and measures put in place per country
A section summarizing the activities of CICOPA and its regional organizations over those two years is included in this version of the report addressed to CICOPA members and the wider cooperative movement, you will find. We consider the report to be of high relevance to the whole cooperative movement, because of the importance to gauge as accurately as possible the size, the evolution, the diversity and the key characteristics of cooperatives involved in various industrial and service sectors. This is important also in relation to key issues being debated today in the world and in which the cooperative movement has a strong potential, in particular in the fields of employment and the future of work, care and community services, sustainable development, the transition from the informal to the formal economy, SME clustering and value chains.
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