[lbo-talk] service coops

Jose Rodriguez & Sally Everson pepor at caribe.net
Wed Aug 13 13:44:20 PDT 2003


If someone were interested in such a project with no experience in setting up a coop, where should they begin? Any internet resources / groups that listers know of to start looking into such a possibility?

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.

Brian Siano wrote:
> 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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