Your Monthly Freebie: Think Outside the Boss

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Kim Kanney
  • June 8, 2019
  • Economics & Law
  • Governance
Book cover titled 'Think Outside the Boss' about creating worker-owned businesses.

This month’s Free Resource comes from Sustainable Economies Law Center, an organization whose mission is to “cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment.”

Think Outside the Boss is an extensive resource guide intended to serve individuals and groups seeking to develop a worker-owned cooperative business. The guide offers information for organizing, managing and incorporating a cooperative business from documentation to employment. Think Outside the Boss is perfect for a group just getting started. You will read examples of employee wage distribution and review sample bylaws.

Available for FREE at the FIC Bookstore. Download right now and check out our other books and resources on Cooperative Economics.

To be used for informational purposes only.
This document is not to be relied on for legal advice.

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