Dulas, for example, is a fast growing worker co-operative in Wales focusing on renewable energy.
Again, your appraisal process will tell you whether you might be better suited to an employee-led or worker co-operative type model, perhaps you'd want something that is a hybrid allowing you to involve service users in your governance set up.
Unions could, for example, develop into fully fledged worker co-operatives hiring out workers to gig employers and providing benefits as members of the co-operative.
Morrell worked in government with Benn and Cripps to produce economic policies that involved worker co-operatives, an alternative economic strategy, import restrictions and currency controls.
Only about 7,000 workers are part of an estimated 300-400 worker co-operatives, which, unlike Esops, require that workers govern as well as own the business by electing the board of directors.
Here, there are now regular and very passionate meetings about the viability of unions and worker co-operatives – they could represent a vital first step in an industry without much history of labour organisation.
As the founder of the Mondragon co-operative in the Basque country, one of the most successful worker co-operatives in the world,, Arizmendiarrieta, said: "co-operativism is an economic movement that uses education; we can also alter the definition, affirming that it is an educational movement that uses economic action".
Meanwhile Madrilonia, an indignado blog, declares the entire economic model broken; the authors are not waiting around for someone to fix it but building their own alternatives, from the Catalan network of co-operatives to the Casa Precaria in Madrid that advises people on how to go about creating their own jobs through worker co-operatives.
With huge inequality still prevalent in Medellín, the hope is that the promotion of worker co-operatives will provide important examples of an enterprise structure in which it is perfectly possible to combine economic efficiency with high levels of equality, dignity and democracy.
Following the collapse, the chief executive who set up Tullis Russell as a worker co-operative in 1994, David Erdal, has defended the ownership model.
Secondly, the city is investigating the viability of private sector worker co-operatives, focusing on small business mentoring, capital access and procurement reforms.
