Essay:The need for student cooperatives

student cooperatives may be able to bridge the conceptual impasse between worker cooperatives and consumer cooperatives. Such cooperative institutions as student cooperatives remove the association between cooperatives and economic roles by centering on the necessity of continual education and research as a precursor to economic roles.

In other words, the distinction between a worker who is both employed and co-owning of sales and profits within the cooperative and a consumer who is employed outside the cooperative in which s/he is co-owning of sales and profits is blurred by the fact that, in order to qualify for employment within or without the cooperative in which they are member-owners, they must first be educated in the skills of the trades for which they're employed.