**Worker Cooperatives** (also called **Producer Cooperatives**,*'
Employee-Owned Enterprises*' or **Labor-Managed Firms**) are
[cooperatives](Cooperative "wikilink") which produce goods or provide
services and are [managed by their
workers](Workers'_Self-Management "wikilink") in
[assemblies](Democratic_Assembly "wikilink") or by elected managers.
[Money](Money "wikilink") gained by the cooperative is reinvested to pay
for the operating costs of the business (like bills, rent, taxes,
licensing, materials and so on) and then is either equally distributed
to workers via shares or is paid based on the amount of time worked in
the cooperative.

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