Introduction, Chapter 1: Worker cooperatives within the wider cooperative movement: importance, evolution and the making of universal standards, INDIA: Chapter 2: Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society: A Century of Excellence, KENYA: Chapter 3: Kigro Recyclers Worker Cooperative: bringing workers out of the informal economy, MOROCCO: Chapter 4: At-Tawafouk Cooperative: the unusual story of a Moroccan worker cooperative for waste collection and processing, GREECE: Chapter 5: From workers' struggle to workers' control through a cooperative: the VIOME case in Greece, FRANCE: Chapter 6: Introduction to the French worker cooperatives (SCOP), Chapter 7: Ethiquable, the path to cooperative fairtrade, Chapter 8: Parcs & Sports, an emblematic worker buyout 40 years ago, today an innovative business, Chapter 9: Quonex Alsatel, an ICT business taken over by its staff, Chapter 10: Ardelaine, a local development cooperative, SPAIN: Chapter 11: Worker cooperatives in Spain: review of their impressive growth over the last decades, Chapter 12: Agresta Cooperative Society: a relentless search for forestry solutions to achieve a more liveable society, applying the Cooperative Principles, Chapter 13: Gredos San Diego Cooperative Society: education is "the basis for achieving, among us all, a more supportive, innovative society, capable, fair and free", Chapter 14: The Mondragon Group, one of the most important examples of entrepreneurial cooperation between cooperatives, ITALY: Chapter 15: Italian social cooperatives, a reality emerging from worker cooperatives, Chapter 16: Cauto Social Cooperative: "do, learn, share', Chapter 17: GOEL Social Cooperative Consortium: struggling successfully against the Calabrian mafia, Chapter 18: A unique support system for worker buyouts: The Marcora Law and CFI, UNITED KINGDOM: Chapter 19: The national worker cooperative background in the UK, Chapter 20: Calvert's North Star Press Ltd: how a printing workshop was reborn, SWEDEN: Chapter 21: Vägen Ut! (The Way Out): a "social worker cooperative" for work integration, JAPAN: Chapter 22: The worker cooperative movement in Japan, Chapter 23: Central Worker Cooperative: combining services of general interest and work integration of disadvantaged persons, Chapter 24: Creators 440Hz: the Democratic Way of Living - From Democratic Education to Democratic Work, SOUTH KOREA: Chapter 25: Worker cooperatives in South Korea, Chapter 26: Happy-Bridge cooperative: Becoming a worker cooperative through institutionalizing and learning, CANADA: Chapter 27: Worker Cooperative History and Context in Canada, Chapter 28: Pivot: an architectural cooperative engaged in the community, USA: Chapter 29: Worker Cooperatives in the United States of America, Chapter 30: Cooperative Home Care Associates: worker cooperative development and unionisation hand in hand, Chapter 31: The Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives: a group of bakery worker cooperatives inspired by Mondragon, BRAZIL: Chapter 32: Uniforja - a story that has been built up for 24 years by workers in a self-management system, URUGUAY: Chapter 33: "La Diaria" cooperative: Uruguay's second daily newspaper, NEW GENERATION COOPERATIVES: Chapter 34: Networks of IT worker cooperatives in Argentina and globally: FACTTIC and PATIO, Conclusions.