The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC – ''pronounced "No Boss"'') is a network of
worker cooperative
A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and Workers' self-management, self-managed by its workers. This control may mean a Company, firm where every worker-owner participates in decision-making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one ...
s dedicated to building
workplace democracy
Workplace democracy is the application of democracy in various forms to the workplace, such as voting systems, consensus, debates, democratic structuring, due process, adversarial process, and systems of appeal. It can be implemented in a ...
in the
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a List of regions of California, region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay, and anchored by the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California, S ...
.
[Gans, Lydia]
Be Your Own Boss, Join a Collective.
''The Berkeley Daily Planet.'' 29 July 2005.
NoBAWC was founded in September 1994 when workers representing nine worker cooperatives met to address their isolation and to build a worker cooperative movement in the region. Twelve years later, NoBAWC comprises over 30 dues-paying workplaces with a paid staff. NoBAWC is a member of the
United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives.
Members
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AK Press
AK Press is a workers' self-management, worker-managed, independent publisher and book distributor that specializes in publishing books about anarchism and the Far-left politics, radical left. Operated out of Chico, California, United States, ...
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Arizmendi Bakery
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Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives
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Berkeley Free Clinic
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BioFuel Oasis
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Bound Together Bookstore
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Box Dog Bikes
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Cheese Board
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City Art Gallery
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Cricket Courier Cooperative
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Cupid Courier Collective
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Design Action Collective
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Electric Embers
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Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop
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Inkworks Press
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Juice Bar Collective
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Liberation Ink
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Lusty Lady
The Lusty Lady is a pair of defunct peep show establishments, one in downtown Seattle and one in the North Beach, San Francisco, California, North Beach district of San Francisco. The Lusty Lady was made famous by the labor activism of its San F ...
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Mandela Foods Cooperative
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Market Street Cooperative
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Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative
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Modern Times Bookstore
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Nabolom Bakery
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924 Gilman Street
The Alternative Music Foundation located at 924 Gilman Street, almost exclusively referred to as "Gilman", is a non-profit, all-ages, collectively organized music club. It is located in the West Berkeley, Berkeley, California, West Berkeley ar ...
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Other Avenues Food Store
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Pedal Express
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Points of Distribution
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Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
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Red Vic Movie House
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Rock Paper Scissors Collective
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San Francisco Community Colocation Project
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Suigetsukan Martial Arts School
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TechCollective
External links
NOBAWC*
Be Your Own Boss, Join a Collective',
Berkeley Daily Planet
''The Berkeley Daily Planet'' was a free weekly newspaper published in Berkeley, California, which continues today as an internet-based news publication.
The ''Daily Planet'' is politically progressive, and offers endorsements of progressive ...
(7/29/2005)
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A World Without Bosses?',
AlterNet
AlterNet is a left-leaning news website based in the United States. It was launched by the Independent Media Institute. In 2018, the website was acquired by owners of '' Raw Story''.
Coverage
Coverage is divided into several special sections re ...
(7/2/2005)
See also
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Berkeley Student Cooperative
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Berkeley Student Food Collective
References
Organizations based in Alameda County, California
Cooperative federations
Cooperatives in the San Francisco Bay Area
Worker cooperatives of the United States
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