Cooperatives May Increase Worker Life Expectancy

Summary

Dave Boyle, a UK-based cooperatives expert, wrote in Economia last March on “the strange re-birth of co-operatives in Britain.”

The article cited research conducted by Co-operatives UK, which documented the superior performance of Britain’s co-ops throughout the recession.

Boyle writes about the findings of David Erdal, author of Beyond The Corporation: Humanity Working. Erdal found that life expectancy for Italian citizens in a town with a high degree of cooperatives was 2.5 years longer than that of citizens in a nearby town without cooperatives.