Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Morganton, North Carolina
Number of employees: 20
Became employee owned: 2008
Assistance: The Industrial Commons
From the Company
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- The Industrial Commons – The story of Opportunity Threads: Rooting Economic Change
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Department of Justice, Peace & Human Development – How One Worker-Owned Cooperative Offered Hope and Economic Development (2018)
- Aspen Institute – How Worker-Ownership Can Rejuvenate American Manufacturing (2017)
- Hemstreet, Chester, and Castelloe – Rooting Economic Change: Harnessing Industry Knowledge, Value Chain Networks, and Worker Ownership in Manufacturing to Bring Real Benefits to People and Communities (2017)
- Blue Ridge Public Radio – A Nation Engaged: Seeking Economic Opportunity Through Worker-Owned Businesses (2016, Audio)
- Yes – A North Carolina Textile Co-Op Gives Immigrant Workers a Stake in the Business (2015)
- Democracy Collaborative – How a worker cooperative factory is helping bring textile manufacturing back to North Carolina (2014)
- The News Herald – Opportunity Threads takes different approach (2012)
- Next City – In Wake of Factory Exodus, Small Companies Pioneer Insourcing (2012)
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