United States

One of the barriers to fostering cooperative values and businesses in North America is the lack of awareness of the benefits that well organized cooperatives with good business practices can offer to workers and communities. Educating the public to the cooperative approach to business is an important contribution which Shift Change can make.” — Ted Howard, Executive Director of Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland

The basic purpose of Shift Change is to encourage the development of work cooperatives in North America as one solution to our severe economic problems as well as a means for a regional economy to compete successfully in the global economy. We at the CMRC can see using the documentary in many ways. — Dan Swinney, Executive Director of Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council

The North American worker cooperatives and the Mondragón cooperatives in Shift Change will tell a compelling story of real possibilities at a time when many think there are no solutions to this current difficult economic situation. — Paul Hazen, President and CEO of the National Cooperative Business Association