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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Worker Cooperatives"”.
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Worker Cooperatives: Strategies and Tactics for Interstitial Transformation
The number of worker cooperatives in the United States has grown substantially in recent decades, as has a robust cooperative movement dedicated to advancing worker-ownership. Many of these individual cooperatives, as well as the movement that incubates and supports them, critique capitalist …
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Worker owned cooperatives and the ecosystems that support them
… wealth creation. Employee ownership, through worker cooperatives is one way to build wealth. But worker cooperatives are rare in the United States; this is because there is not a supportive cooperative ecosystem. The province of Quebec, Canada has developed a robust cooperative ecosystem, …
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Exploring whether learning can contribute towards sustainable development : a case study of a social enterprise in the clothing and textile industry in the Western Cape
… to earn a living through establishing sewing cooperatives. The cooperatives are women’s worker cooperatives that are located in several townships in the Western Cape, South Africa. Through training it was intended for the women in the cooperatives and by association Shanti, to achieve …
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"No One Washes a Rental Car”: Parsing Contested Narratives of Worker Ownership in the Massachusetts Cooperative Economy
… now more than ever, a groundswell of interest in worker cooperatives — firms that are collectively owned and democratically managed by their employees — has recently emerged. For many, worker cooperatives (co-ops) represent a means to raise wages, improve working conditions, mitigate precarity, …
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The Roles of a Basque-inspired Cooperative in the Community Based Economic Development in Cleveland, Ohio
… a development approach that involves large-scale worker cooperatives, anchor institutions, and local government. Besides, Cooperative experience in Cleveland demonstrates the feasibility of Mondragon replication outside the Basque Country, a notion that has been debated by scientists in Basque …
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Cape Town clothing workers' attitudes towards key aspects of and alternatives to regulation by the Bargaining Council
… attitudes held by formal and informal clothing workers toward the regulatory environment and possible alternatives to current regulation by the bargaining council. The research aimed to explore worker understanding of the regulatory environment, in particular the wages versus job-security …
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Vom Kapitalismus zur Marktwirtschaft durch Mitarbeiterteilhabe - Eine empirische Analyse von Kreditgenossenschaften zur Identifikation möglicher Konstruktionselemente für ein Mitarbeiterteilhabemodell
… employees and to enhance their swarm creativity. Worker cooperatives, kibbutzim, partnership companies and Titos workers' self-management companies came close to the desired “employee-participation-model”. Their failure was dominated by the members' unwillingness to altruistically retain profits …
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Bringing Society Back into the Theory of the Firm: the Adaptation of the Mondragon Cooperative Model in Valencia and Beyond
The purpose of this dissertation is to challenge the predominant theories of the firm in economics by demonstrating that the firm can only be properly understood if the importance of cooperation based on trust and loyalty, and the ability of the firm to achieve that cooperation by influencing the …