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{{Short description|Group of entities sharing interest}}
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[[File:Collective agreement negotiations by Tehy and Super in Finnish healthcare in 2022 1.jpg|alt=a crowd holding banners and balloons|thumb|Two groups (Finnish nursing unions [[Tehy]] and [[SuPer]]) working towards a shared goal]]
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A '''collective''' is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest or work together to achieve a common objective.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} Collectives can differ from [[cooperative]]s in that they are not necessarily focused upon an economic benefit or saving, though they can be.

The term "collective" is sometimes used to describe a species as a whole—for example, the human collective.

For political purposes, a collective is defined by decentralized, or "majority-rules" decision-making styles.

==Types of groups==
Collectives are sometimes characterised by attempts to share and exercise [[political power|political]] and [[power (sociology)|social]] power and to make decisions on a [[Consensus decision-making|consensus]]-driven and [[egalitarianism|egalitarian]] basis.

A [[Commune (intentional community)|commune]] or [[intentional community]], which may also be known as a "collective household", is a group of people who live together in some kind of dwelling or residence, or in some other arrangement (e.g., sharing land). Collective households may be organized for a specific purpose (e.g., relating to business, [[parenting]], or some other shared interest).

[[Artist collective]]s, including [[musical collective]]s, are typically a collection of individuals with similar interests in producing and documenting art as a group. These groups can range in size from a few people to thousands of members.{{Citation needed|date=November 2013}} The style of art produced can have vast differences. Motivations can be for a common cause or individually motivated purposes. Some collectives are simply people who enjoy painting with someone else and have no other goals or motivations for forming their collective.{{Citation needed|date=November 2013}}

A [[worker cooperative]] is a type of horizontal collective wherein a business functions as a partnership of individual professionals, recognizing them as equals and rewarding them for their expertise. The working collective aims to reduce costs to clients while maintaining healthy rewards for participating partners. This is accomplished by eliminating the operating costs that are needed to support levels of management.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

==See also==
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*[[Colectivo (Venezuela)]]
*[[Collective agreement]]
*[[Collective bargaining]]
*[[Collective farming]]
*[[Collective guilt]]
*[[Collective intentionality]]
*[[Collective ownership]]
*[[Collective punishment]]
*[[Collective security]]
*[[College (Catholic canon law)]]
*[[Community]]
*{{section link|Coparenting|Coparenting by more than two adults}}
*[[Corporatism]]
*[[Discursive dilemma]]
*[[Green Mountain Anarchist Collective]]
*[[Kibbutz]]
*[[Kolkhoz]]
*[[Law collective]]
*[[Mutual aid (organization)|Mutual aid]]
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==Further reading==
*[[Christian List|List, Christian]] & Philip Pettit. (2011) ''Group Agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents''. Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]].
*Curl, John. (2009) ''For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America''. PM Press. {{ISBN|978-1-60486-072-6}}
* David Van Deusen, 2015, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150930091721/http://news.infoshop.org/anarchist-news/rise-and-fall-green-mountain-anarchist-collective ''The Rise and Fall of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective' ].

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