[lbo-talk] service coops (was Servant culture)

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Wed Aug 13 07:14:13 PDT 2003


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>That was the exact thought I had when I read _Nickel and Dimed_ . Why
>can a two-bit capitalist (Ehrenreich's term) start and run a domestic
>service firm but not a union or a coop? After all, it is a very
>low-capital venture, all it takes is a few thousand bucks to rent office
>space and purchase vaccum cleaners and cleaning agents - even poor
>people can do that.
>
I'm sure someone might be thinking of replying, "Yeah, sure, coupla thousand dollars to blow on a business venture," but this is actually a very good idea. And there are places to obtain the venture capital-- I don't know what the Small Business Administration requirement would be for a co-op, but that's one avenue to consider.



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