British Journal of Education, Learning and Development Psychology ISSN: 2682-6704 Volume 7, Issue 2, 2024 (pp. 11-17) 11 Article DOI: 10.52589/BJELDP-23OJU4PD DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.52589/BJELDP-23OJU4PD www.abjournals.org ABSTRACT: Worker-cooperatives are emerging as organizational structures responding to the trends within the world of work, ranging from technological, economical to social trends. They have a specific democratic governance structure of management and members being the workers and they are also in charge of decisions making in the enterprise. As part of the trends in a changing world of work, worker-cooperatives use different spectrums of technologies for local and international work performance. They buy out or take over business organizations that are failing as a result of the financial and economic crisis and transform the business organizations into productive enterprises. They also generate employment for members and non-members, provide financial assistance to members and non-members at a reduced interest rate and help to train community members to be proficient in different fields of endeavour. Obviously, in the Nigerian society today, worker-cooperatives are agents of bringing development in urban settlements and rural communities. KEYWORDS: Trends, worker-cooperatives, work, community development, Nigeria. EMERGING TRENDS IN WORKER-COOPERATIVES IN A CHANGING WORLD OF WORK: IMPLICATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA Chidinma Dokubo (Ph.D.) 1 and Azubuike Baba Clement 2 1 Department Of Adult Education and Community Development, Faculty Of Education, Rivers State University Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Email: chidinma.dokubo@ust.edu.ng; Tel.: +2348033169568 2 Rivers Cooperative Trust and Investment Ltd, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Email: riverscooptrust@gmail.com Cite this article: Chidinma D., Azubuike B. C. (2024), Emerging Trends in Worker-Cooperatives in a Changing World of Work: Implication for Community Development in Nigeria. British Journal of Education, Learning and Development Psychology 7(2), 11-17. DOI: 10.52589/BJELDP- 23OJU4PD Manuscript History Received: 18 Dec 2023 Accepted: 1 Mar 2024 Published: 26 Mar 2024 Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits anyone to share, use, reproduce and redistribute in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.