Park Slope Food Coop: Part 2 Work Sharing

The Park Slope Food Coop is a member-owned grocery store in Brooklyn, NY. The store offers a variety of produce and household goods only for members at a 21% markup (Compared to 30-100% at a supermarket.) One of the requirements for a member is to work at the store two hours and forty five minutes every four weeks. This labor contribution minimizes the personal cost of the store, and makes the food affordable to its members.

This is the second segment in a five-part series of video journals. This episode focuses on one of the important element of this co-op: Work Contribution.

Shot and Edited by Iki Nakagawa

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Park Slope Food Coop
• co-op
• labor
• work
• alternative economy
• Park Slope
• Brooklyn
• NYC

[hyenalife]

組合としての決まりは色々あるのですが、自治的な所が多いので、­全体をうまく調整するのは難しいようですが、それでも16000­人の会員でこれがうまく軌道しているところがすごいと思っていま­す。コメントありがとう。

[yi7920]

組合での労働に対して、会員の皆さんそれぞれが微妙に違った意義­を見いだしているのが面白いですね。マネージメントの難しさが伺­えます。