Read our report about how Boston can cultivate a cooperative economy.

In Massachusetts, the number of worker-owned, cooperative businesses has tripled over the past decade. There has been remarkable creativity and resilience by working-class people and communities of color to build these cooperatives, despite structural challenges and precarity.

This report documents the City of Boston's past and current support for worker ownership, and it envisions potential entry points for expanding the City's support for worker ownership in Boston.