This document discusses the potential for cooperatives to address economic precarity and establish commons-based models of production and sharing. It notes that the current economic and ecological crises along with trends toward precarious work and open innovation present a historical moment for cooperatives. Cooperatives are proposed as a means for workers to gain autonomy through self-employment. The concept of "open cooperativism" is introduced as a new cooperative model that emphasizes the common good, multi-stakeholder involvement, commons production, and global structures. Several emerging cooperative trends are identified, and the document concludes by referencing proposals to revisit the cooperative model and establish a "Grand Coalition of Commons".

1. Cooperative as New
Commons
Jukka Peltokoski
KSL-opintokeskus 2016
slideshare.net/jukpelto

2. Historical moment for coops
• Economic and ecological crisis
• “New work”
• “Open innovation”
• New productive and ethical subjectivity
• Commons movement
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3. Photo: Emmanuelle
Bourgue: “Home made
paint sensory bags for
our Coop kiddos - to
learn how to draw
shapes, write letters,
numbers, etc…”
https://www.flickr.com
/photos/manueb

4. Precarity
• Temp workers, part timers, self-employed,
entrepreneurs, unemployed...
• Economic uncertainty
• Productive networks
• New labor power
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5. Common(s)
• Shared resources, common wealth
• Commoning, commoner, common
• Communis, Communitas, Res Communes
• From common land to digital commons
• Commons based peer production
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6. Photo: By Djbclark
(Own work), CC
BY-SA 3.0, via
Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wiki
media.org/wiki/File%3
APika--mit-fsilg-coope
rative-housing--house
-art-with-swirl-500px.p
ng

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"General term for shared resources in which
each stakeholder has an equal interest.
Goods which are jointly developed and
maintained by a community and shared
according to community-defined rules."
- P2P Foundation

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"The salient characteristic of commons, as opposed to
property, is that no single person has exclusive control over
the use and disposition of any particular resource in the
commons. Instead, resources governed by commons may be
used or disposed of by anyone among some (more or less
well-defined) number of persons, under rules that may range
from 'anything goes' to quite crisply articulated formal rules
that are effectively enforced."
- Yohai Benkler

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The commons “refers to that vast range of
resources that people collectively own, but
which are rapidly being enclosed: privatized,
traded in the market, and abused.”
- David Bollier

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"Every commons has four characteristics: a
resource; the people who share it; the value
created through its production or
preservation; and the rules that govern it."
- Silke Helfrich

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"The word 'common' is the best starting point for
the analysis. The common thing within a commons
are the resources, which are used and cared for, are
the goods resulting from joint activities, and are the
social relationships emerging from acting together.
These three aspects are so different for all
commons, that no one could describe them in a
reasonably complete manner."
- Stefan Meretz

12. Photo: Co-operative
Commonwealth Foundation,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
o-operative_Commonwealth_
Federation

13. Photo: Geograph: The Co-op
Museum, Rochdale
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photo
s/42/34/423498_f2864b1f.jpg

14. Cooperative
• Already Marx...
• Cooperation as an imperative
• Precarity as a condition
• Cooperative as a struggle for autonomy
• From self-employed to self-employer
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15. “Open cooperativism”
New cooperative form:
• Common good
• Multi-stakeholder model
• Commons production
• Global structures
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New economic order:
• Citizens producing
• Cooperatives marketing
• Foundations supporting

16. Coop trends?
• Precariat’s worker cooperatives
• Cooperative co-working spaces
• Cooperative production companies
• Social and solidarity cooperatives
• Local rural-urban coops (food, travelling)
• Platform cooperatives?
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17. Michel Bauwens:
Cooperative model revisited

18. Michel Bauwens:
The Grand Coalition of Commons

19. Kiitos!
Jukka Peltokoski
KSL-opintokeskus
slideshare.net/jukpelto
jukka.peltokoski@ksl.fi