From Empty Warehouses to Worker-Owned Factories: The Co-op Supply Chain Quietly Reshaping Rural America
When pandemic-era disruptions exposed the brittleness of globalized supply chains, many small American towns discovered they had already lost the manufacturing capacity needed to respond. A growing number of communities are now rebuilding that capacity through worker-owned cooperatives and member-governed supply networks—and the results challenge conventional assumptions about what small-scale production can achieve. MyKoperasi examines the cooperative supply chain model and why it may be the mo