]]Since 1882, [http://store.thecoop.com/coopstore/estore_aboutus.jsp Harvard and MIT have had their Coop]. In the 70's, we had food co-ops (they're still around you know<ref>There are cooperatives in food, retail, housing, credit-unions, labor, renewable energy etc.</ref>). Now the '''worker collaborative''' has emerged as the new co-operative for the new century.
The International Co-operative Alliance (www.ica.coop) represents close to one billion individual members. Cooperatives generate partial or full-time employment for at least 250 million people worldwide, and make up 12% of the entire employed population of the G20 countries. The 2,000 co-operatives in the 65 countries surveyed by the World Cooperative Monitor totals 2.6 trillion USD.