I have been given 2 minutes to introduce the idea of Worker Cooperatives before a screening of The Economics of Happiness in Ithaca, NY.  Not very long, so I thought I would bring a one-page handout.  With little space to work with my thought was to let people know

• a) the definition
• b) that these businesses exist throughout the country (that that they are not just theoretical or concentrated in San Francisco)
• c) that they can be thriving businesses (that they are not structurally doomed), and
• d) where to find more information, especially for Upstate New Yorkers 

I wish I could have fit in

• x) that they serve many different types of people, including low-income people
• y) that they tend to be highly environmentally reponsible, and
• z) that they tend to have high rates of job satisfaction 

but I wasn't sure how to represent these in a simple way.  I suppose that's what I will say in 2 minutes, as well as tout the city's local cooperatives.  The first line is stolen from the U.S. Federations's What is a Worker Cooperative?