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John Curl's Humanizing the Economy is solid, and the beginning and final chapters get into some interesting theoretical territory.

Pretty much anything by Brett Fairbairn, but this essay is a good place to start.

Though he passed on a few years ago, I believe Ian MacPherson was one of the 20th century's greatest scholars of cooperativism. Start with this collection of essays that he curated.

Finally, if you're interested in credit unions, here's a list of book reviews I wrote while in grad school.

Wow. So there's a lot here - are you asking for purely written books or are websites OK?

First, look in your local bookstore! That being said, Amazon has a ton (these are ones I've read):

Gar Alperovitz - America Beyond Capitalism

William Whyte - Making Mondragon

Marina Sitrin - Horizontalism

Frank T Adams - Putting Democracy to Work

Encrico Masseti - Coop: Made in the USA

Seymour Melman - After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy

David Schweickart - After Capitalism


Also, take a look at this PDF on Tech Worker coops which I contributed to.

Amazon has a bunch I haven't read.


Websites (which list quite a few books/articles relevant here):

http://usworker.coop/education
http://usworker.coop/faceted_search/

http://www.american.coop/
http://american.coop/node/119

http://www.geo.coop/
http://www.geo.coop/replication-of-arizmendi

And finally, the article that got me started on the road to cooperating:
A Cooperative Manifesto by Tim Huet.

Films - there are a lot, but the only ones that are easy to get a hold of are:

The Take

Capitalism: A Love Story - though this only has a small portion on coops and some more in the extras

Some More:

This Way Out

Shift Change - not out yet but based on the trailer it looks off the hook.

Argentina Turning Around

Governing The Firm

Cooperatives and Local Development

Humanizing the Economy

The Cooperative Workplace

The above books are useful if you are looking for a wide range of opinions and solid information on cooperatives. Some of them are more of "yay, cooperatives!" Whereas others are more academic discourses on cooperatives and their challenges.

Hope this is helpful.

None. Do NOT use Robert's Rules. It's AWFUL. It encourages excessive bureaucracy and fundamentally creates partisanship. It requires that people start discussion with proposals and then take sides for or against.

https://www.guidestar.org/rxa/news/articles/2008/going-for-consensus-not-roberts-rules.aspx

Go get the great book How To Make Meetings Work, cheap used copies available: http://amzn.com/0425138704/?tag=wolftune-20

Otherwise search around for facilitation and consensus.

Use a meeting process where you have a neutral facilitator and you make decisions by consensus except with a fallback vote option so that nobody has the power to hold things up when there's no consensus.

Consider https://www.nasco.coop/resources/kwunsensus

Seriously, do NOT use Robert's Rules!! Do you want your co-op to become as dysfunctional as the U.S. Congress‽

I can't say this strongly enough.

i recently went to see the author of for all the people give a talk on his book and he explained that historically, the knights of labor (one of the earliest US unions) had as many as 200 coops they were affiliated with which offered services to union members.

unions can set up coops as a means to provide services and jobs for members, and vice versa: coops can federate into coop unions.

https://www.amazon.com/What-Then-Must-We-Revolution/dp/1603585044