Editors Note: This compendium has been compiled from selected publications, reminiscences, reports and the worldwide experiences of practitioners, researchers and others who have participated in, studied, or written about group or “cooperative entrepreneurship," the systematic organizing of workers' industrial cooperatives as a strategy for economic development and job creation. The materials included have not been quoted verbatim, but have been edited and interpolated for ease of use and continuity, and some material has been deleted which is considered to be extraneous or not relevant to understanding the concept of cooperative entrepreneurship.