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History
In 1941, as a young Catholic priest, Arizmendiarrieta settled in Mondragón, a town with a population of 7,000 that had not yet recovered from the poverty, hunger, exile, and tension of the Spanish Civil War.The Mondragón Experiment â Corporate Cooperativism (1980) FULL {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113201746weblink |date=13 January 2017 }} You TubeWEB,weblink Biography of Fr Jose MarÃa Arizmendiarrieta (1915-1976), Cause for Canonization, 4 May 2021, 4 May 2021,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20210504182929weblink">weblink live, In 1943, Arizmendiarrieta established a technical college which became a training ground for managers, engineers and skilled labour for local companies, and primarily for the co-operatives.BOOK Arizmendiarrieta spent a number of years educating young people about a form of humanism based on solidarity and participation, in harmony with Catholic social teaching, and the importance of acquiring the necessary technical knowledge before creating the first co-operative.In 1955, he selected five young people to establish the first company of the co-operative and industrial beginning of the Mondragon Corporation. The company was called Talleres Ulgor, an acronym derived from the surnames of Usatorre, Larrañaga, Gorroñogoitia, Ormaechea, and Ortubay, known today as "Fagor Electrodomésticos".BOOK, Foote
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In the first 15 years, many co-operatives were established, thanks to the autarky of the market and the awakening of the Spanish economy. During these years, also with the encouragement of Arizmendiarrieta, the Caja Laboral (1959) and the Social Welfare Body Lagun Aro (1966) were established that played a key role. The first local group was created, Ularco. In 1969, Eroski was founded by merging ten small local consumer co-operatives.WEB,weblink Conosce Eroski una empresa diferente, Eroski, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701042206weblink |date=1 July 2009 }}{{secondary source needed|date=February 2021}}During the next 20 years, from 1970 to 1990, the dynamic continued, with a strong increase in new co-operatives promoted by Caja Laboral's Business Division, the promotion of co-operative associations, the formation of local groups, and the founding of the Ikerlan Research Centre in 1974.WEB, Ikerlan - Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia, Research - Auñamendi Basque Encyclopedia,weblink aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus, euskomedia.org, 28 April 2024, eu, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302122022weblink |date=2 March 2011 }}With Spain scheduled to join the European Economic Community in 1986, it was decided in 1984 to establish the "Mondragon Co-operative Group", the forerunner of the current corporation. In-service training for managers was strengthened by creating Otalora, dedicated to training, and the dissemination of co-operatives. The Group consisted of 23,130 workers at the end of 1990.WEB,weblink Year-on-year Development, MONDRAGON Corporation, mondragon-corporation.com, Staff writer(s),weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111231141624weblink">weblink 31 December 2011, dead, {{secondary source needed|date=February 2021}}, William
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International expansion
On the international stage, the aim was to respond to growing globalisation, expanding abroad by establishing production plants in a number of countries. The first was the Copreci plant in Mexico in 1990, followed by many others: up to 73 by the end of 2008, and 122 at the end of 2013. The goals were to increase competitiveness and market share, bring component supply closer to customers' plants, especially in the automotive and domestic appliance sectors, and to strengthen employment in the Basque Country by promoting exports of co-operatives' products by means of new platforms.BOOK, Ormaetxe
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Between 2002 and 2007, Fagor and Eroski issued bonds ().While they were commercialized as safe deposits, the courts classed them as riskier debt instruments.When the yields fell during the financial crisis, bond-holders sued against the cooperatives.In 2008, the worker-owners of the cooperatives Ampo (metal casting) and Irizar (coaches) voted to leave the corporation.NEWS, Ferreras, Belén, Mondragon sin Ulma y Orona: la nueva vida de la cooperativa más grande del mundo,weblink 19 December 2022, elDiario.es, 18 December 2022, es-ES, In October 2009, the United Steelworkers announced an agreement with Mondragon to create worker cooperatives in the United States.Wilson, Amanda. Bendable Business: Cooperatives less likely to break in economic crises. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316081621weblink |date=16 March 2016 }} The Dominion. 4 December 2009. On 26 March 2012, the USW, Mondragon, and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) announced their detailed union co-op model.The-Union-Co-op-Model {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911020341weblink |date=11 September 2013 }} United Steelworkers, 26 March 2012The industrial sector ended 2012 with a new record of â¬4 billion in international sales, beating sales figures from before the financial crisis of 2007â2008. Mondragon opened 11 new production subsidiaries. International sales that year accounted for 69% of all sales, a 26% increase from 2009 to 2012, and with 14,000 employees abroad. Mondragon's share in the BRIC markets increased to 20% compared to the previous year.Internationalisation consolidates MONDRAGONâs industrial business with sales abroad in excess of â¬4bn www.tulankide.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111132757weblink |date=11 January 2014 }} 17 June 2013 In 2013, international sales grew by 6.7% and accounted for 71.1% of total sales.Internationalisation and innovation, keys to the evolution of MONDRAGON cooperatives in 2013 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195111weblink |date=10 September 2014 }} 8 September 2014, mondragon-corporation.comOn 16 October 2013, domestic appliance company Fagor Electrodomésticos filed for bankruptcy under Spanish law to renegotiate â¬1,1 billion of debt, after suffering heavy losses during the eurocrisis putting 5,600 employees at risk of losing their jobs.Spanish white goods company Fagor seeks protection from creditors {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223020424weblink |date=23 February 2019 }} 16 October 2013 reuters.com/ This was followed by the bankruptcy of the whole Fagor group on 6 November 2013.Fagor et sa filiale française déposent le bilan www.lemonde.fr {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202233548weblink |date=2 December 2013 }} Le Monde.fr, AFP and Reuters, 6 November 2013 In July 2014, Fagor was bought by Catalonian company Cata for â¬42.5 million. Cata pledged to create 705 direct jobs in the Basque Country and to continue the brand names Fagor, Edesa, Aspes, and Splendid.WEB
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In 2022, the worker-owners of ULMA Group (scaffolding) and Orona (elevators) voted to leave the corporation. Estimated impact of the leave is a workforce drop by 13% and a 15% cut of the groupâs sales.WEB,weblink New trouble for Mondragon as two industrial co-ops leave the fold , Catalan company Cata buys bankrupt domestic appliance business Fagor
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Business culture
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This business culture translates into compliance with a number of Basic Objectives (Customer Focus, Development, Innovation, Profitability, People in Co-operation and Involvement in the Community) and General Policies approved by the Co-operative Congress, which are taken on board at all the corporation's organisational levels and incorporated into the four-year strategic plans and the annual business plans of the individual co-operatives, divisions, and the corporation as a whole.WEB,weblink Mondragon Corporation. Co-operatives bodies and terminology, www.mondragon-corporation.com, 11 November 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101024014643weblink">weblink 24 October 2010, dead, {{non-primary source needed|date=May 2021}}, William
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Wage regulation
At Mondragon, there are agreed-upon wage ratios between executive work and field or factory work which earns a minimum wage. These ratios range from 3:1 to 9:1 in different cooperatives and average 5:1. That is, the general manager of an average Mondragon cooperative earns no more than 5 times as much as the theoretical minimum wage paid in their cooperative. For most workers, this ratio is smaller because there are few Mondragon worker-owners that earn minimum wages, because most jobs are somewhat specialized and are classified at higher wage levels. The wage ratio of a cooperative is decided periodically by its worker-owners through a democratic vote.JOURNAL, Herrera, David, 2004, Mondragon: a for-profit organization that embodies Catholic social thought., Review of Business, 25, 1, 56â68, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John's University,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100714041351weblink">weblink 14 July 2010,weblink 29 August 2014, Compared to similar jobs at local industries, Mondragon managers' wages are considerably lower (as some companies pay their best paid managers hundreds of times more than the lowest-paid employee of the company){{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} and equivalent for middle management, technical and professional levels. Lower wage levels are on average 13% higher than similar jobs at local businesses. Spain's progressive tax rate further reduces any disparity in pay. These comparatively low wages can make it very difficult to recruit managers from investor-owned firms.JOURNAL, Basterretxea, Imanol, Heras-Saizarbitoria, Iñaki, Lertxundi, Aitziber, Can employee ownership and human resource management policies clash in worker cooperatives? Lessons from a defunct cooperative, Human Resource Management, 20 February 2019, 58, 6, 585â601, 10.1002/hrm.21957, 10810/31804, 159410290,weblink 13 September 2019, free,Business sectors
Mondragon Corporation operates in four areas: finance, industry, retail, and knowledge, with the latter distinguishing Mondragon from other business groups. In 2013, the corporation posted a total revenue of over â¬12 billion (roughly US$16 billion), and employed 74,061 workers, making it Spain's fourth-largest industrial and tenth-largest financial group.WEB, The Rise of Shared Ownership and the Fall of Business As Usual, Fast Company, Jeffrey Hollender, 27 June 2011,weblink 28 June 2011, 1 July 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110701065504weblink">weblink live,Finance
This area includes the banking business of Laboral Kutxa, the insurance company Seguros Lagun Aro, and the Voluntary Social Welfare Body Lagun Aro, which had an asset fund totaling â¬5,566 million at the end of 2014. The yield obtained from this fund is used to cover long-term retirement, widowhood, and invalidity benefits, complementary to those offered by the Spanish social security system.Industry
The corporation's companies manufacture consumer goods, capital goods, industrial components, products, and systems for construction, and services. The latter includes very diverse business groups such as Abantail: Adaptive design optimization, Alecop: Engineering training, LKS Consultores: Attorneys etc., KREAN: Architects and engineers. MCCTelecom: Telecommunication engineering. Mondragon Lingua: Translation and language schools, Mondragon Sistemas: Automation, Industrial Computing and Telecommunications. Ondoan: Turnkey projects in the energy and environmental sector.In the leisure and sports area, it manufactures Orbea bicycles, exercise equipment and items for camping, garden and beach.WEB,weblink
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WEB,weblink Llega la Mondragón del futuro, centrada en la rentabilidad y la solidaridad exigente, 19 July 2016, 13 November 2020, 7 May 2021,weblink live, In capital goods, Mondragon posted a turnover of â¬976 million in 2009 and is the leading Spanish manufacturer of machining (Danobat Group) and sheet metal forming (Fagor Arrasate Group) machine tools. These machines are complemented by automation and control products for machine tools, packaging machinery, machinery for automating assembly processes and processing wood, forklift trucks, electric transformers, integrated equipment for the catering industry, cold stores, and refrigeration equipment. Specifically focusing on the automotive sector, the corporation also manufactures a wide variety of dies, molds and tooling for casting iron and aluminium, and occupies a leading position in machinery for the casting sector.WEB,weblink
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In Industrial Components, Mondragon posted a turnover of â¬1.5 billion in 2009, a sector in which it operates as an integrated supplier for the leading car manufacturers, offering from the design and development of a part to the industrialization and supply of components and assemblies. It has different business units such as brakes, axles, suspension, transmission, engines, aluminium wheel rims, fluid conduction, and other internal and external vehicle components. It also produces components for the main domestic appliance manufacturers in three business areas: white goods, home comfort, and electronics. And it manufactures flanges and pipe accessories for processing oil-gas, petrochemical plants and power generation, copper and aluminium electrical conductors, and components for conveyors.WEB,weblink
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In construction, sales totaled â¬974 million in 2009. Mondragon has constructed buildings and important infrastructure projects. It designs and builds large metallic (URSSA), laminated wood and prefabricated concrete structures; supplies prefabricated parts in polymer concrete; offers solutions{{solution-inline|date=December 2021}} for formwork and structures (ULMA Group) as well as public works machinery and the industrialization of the construction process, including engineering and assembly services. The ORONA Group produces elevators.WEB,weblink ORONA is part of MONDRAGON, www.orona-group.com, 21 December 2019, 24 April 2020,weblink live, In services to business, sales totaled â¬248 million in 2008, including business consultancy services, architecture and engineering, property consulting, design and innovation (LKS Group), systems engineering for electromechanical installations, and integrated logistics engineering. It also offers a modern language service, manufactures educational equipment, and provides graphic arts services (mccgraphics S.Coop).{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}In 2013, 71.1% of turnover came from international sales. Sales resulting from the export of products abroad and production generated in the 122 subsidiaries located in several different countries: China (15), France (17), Poland (8), Czech Republic (7), Mexico (8), Brazil (5), Germany (4), Italy (4), United Kingdom (3), Romania (3), United States (4), Turkey (2), Portugal (2), Slovakia (2), India (5), Thailand (1) and Morocco (1). Overall, in 2013 these 122 plants provided work for more than 11,000 people. The corporate industrial park in Kunshan, close to Shanghai houses seven subsidiaries.WEB,weblink Corporative Profile 2010, 11 March 2011, www.mondragon-corporation.com,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110302021059weblink">weblink 2 March 2011, dead, In 2012, it opened 11 new subsidiaries abroad, employing around 14,000 people. Its international sales that year marked a record number of 69% of its total sales (â¬5.8 billion, with a 2% fall compared to the previous year). Mondragon also participated in 91 international R&D projects.Tu Lankide,"Internationalization consolidates Mondragonâs industrial business with sales abroad in excess of â¬4bn" www.tulankide.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111132757weblink |date=11 January 2014 }}, 17 June 2013.In 2014, the industrial cooperatives created 1,000 jobs, and internationalization continued with 125 production subsidiaries abroad â 3 more than the year before.Tu Lankide MONDRAGON cooperatives in industrial sector create 1.000 jobs in 2014 www.tulankide.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722164205weblink |date=22 July 2015 }} 14 July 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110927071737weblink">weblink
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Retail
Mondragon runs Eroski, one of the leading retail groups all over Spain and in southern France, and maintains close contacts with the French group Les Mousquetaires and the German retailer Edeka, with whom it set up the Alidis international purchasing group in 2002. The worker-owners and consumer-members participate in the co-operative's decision-making bodies and management of Eroski.WEB,weblink
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, At the end of 2013, Eroski posted a turnover of â¬6.6 billion, operating 2.069 stores made up of 90 Eroski hypermarkets, 1,211 Eroski/center, Caprabo, Eroski/city, Aliprox, Familia, Onda and Cash & Carry supermarkets, 155 branches of Eroski travel agencies, 63 petrol stations, 39 Forum Sport stores and 221 IF perfume stores.Datos destacados de 2014 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316045051weblink |date=16 March 2016 }} Eroski In southern France Eroski had 4 hypermarkets, 16 supermarkets and 17 petrol stations, and 4 perfume stores in Andorra.WEB,weblink / Magnitudes económicas de Eroski, 11 March 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110319192200weblink">weblink 19 March 2011, dead,
Retail includes the food group Erkop, for catering, cleaning, stock-breeding, and horticulture with Auzo Lagun, a co-operative in group catering and cleaning of buildings and premises, and integrated service in the health sector.WEB,weblink Erkop, Erkop, 11 March 2011, 23 February 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170223044548weblink">weblink live, In 2008, worker-members voted to expand the cooperative transformation to the retail group as a whole, turning subsidiaries into co-operatives, and making salaried workers worker-members.WEB
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, At the end of 2013, Eroski posted a turnover of â¬6.6 billion, operating 2.069 stores made up of 90 Eroski hypermarkets, 1,211 Eroski/center, Caprabo, Eroski/city, Aliprox, Familia, Onda and Cash & Carry supermarkets, 155 branches of Eroski travel agencies, 63 petrol stations, 39 Forum Sport stores and 221 IF perfume stores.Datos destacados de 2014 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316045051weblink |date=16 March 2016 }} Eroski In southern France Eroski had 4 hypermarkets, 16 supermarkets and 17 petrol stations, and 4 perfume stores in Andorra.WEB,weblink / Magnitudes económicas de Eroski, 11 March 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110319192200weblink">weblink 19 March 2011, dead,
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Knowledge
This area has a dual focus: education-training and innovation, which have both been key elements in the development of the corporation. Training-education is mainly linked to the dynamism of Mondragon University, the significant role that Politeknika Ikastegia Txorierri, Arizmendi Ikastola and Lea Artibai Ikastetxea play in their respective areas and the activity of the Management and Co-operative Development Centre Otalora.WEB,weblink
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Mondragon University is a co-operative university, which combines the development of knowledge, skills, and values, and maintains close relations with business, especially Mondragon co-operatives. Technological innovation is generated through the co-operatives' own R&D departments, the Corporate Science and Technology Plan, the corporation's 12 technology centers and the Garaia Innovation Park.WEB,weblink Mondragon Annual Corporate Profile for 2010, www.mondragon-corporation.com, 11 March 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110302021059weblink">weblink 2 March 2011, dead, The 15 technology centers play a fundamental role in the development of the sectors of focus. In 2009 they employed 742 people and had a budget of â¬53.7 million.WEB,weblink / Mondragon Yearly Report 2010, www.mondragon-corporation.com, 11 March 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110415003905weblink">weblink 15 April 2011, dead, In 2013 its network of technology centers and R&D units provided employment for 1,700 people and the commitment to R&D&I matters amounted to 136 million Euros, 8.5% of added value. Mondragon has 479 families of Patents for Inventions, which accounts for 25% patents in the Basque Country, participating in more than 30 R&D cooperation projects at the European level., Mondragón: Más de 50 años en Navarra, www.negociosennavarra.com
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Reactions
In 2012, Richard D. Wolff, an American professor of economics, hailed the Mondragon set of enterprises, including the good wages it provides for employees, the empowerment of ordinary workers in decision making, and the measure of equality for female workers, as a major success and cited it as a working model of an alternative to the capitalist mode of production.Wolff, Richard (24 June 2012). Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106145802weblink |date=6 November 2017 }}. The Guardian.In an April 2012 interview, Noam Chomsky said that, while Mondragon offers an alternative to capitalism, it was still embedded in a capitalist system which limits Mondragon's decisions:Talking With Chomsky {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710132013weblink |date=10 July 2012 }}, Laura Flanders, 30 April 2012 CounterPunch.{{Cquote|Take the most advanced case: Mondragon. Itâs worker-owned, itâs not worker managed, although the management does come from the workforce often, but itâs in a market system and they still exploit workers in South America, and they do things that are harmful to the society as a whole and they have no choice. If youâre in a system where you must make a profit in order to survive, you're compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.}}Vicenç Navarro wrote that, from a business perspective, Mondragon is successful in matching efficiency with solidarity and democracy. However, he writes that the number of employees who are not owners has increased more rapidly than worker-owners, to a point that in some companies, for example in the supermarket chains owned by Mondragon, the first is a much larger group than the second. In Navarro's view, this establishes a two-tier system â for example, in terms of whom to save in the case the company collapses. In the collapse of Fagor, the relocation of employees to other companies belonging to Mondragon favored those who were worker-owners, which may affect labor relations:Vincent Navarro, What About Cooperatives as a Solution? The Case of Mondragon {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032921weblink |date=2 May 2014 }}, CounterPunch, 2014.04.30{{Cquote|Actually, one of the successes of Mondragon was its ability to create a sense of identity among the workers within the company, encouraging an environment of solidarity and collegiality among them, a feeling that also extended (although to a much lesser degree) to non-worker-owners. The connection felt by the latter group has somewhat weakened, however, exposing a vulnerable point for the cooperative.}}The Mondragon system is one of four case studies analyzed in Capital and the Debt Trap, which summarized evidence claiming that cooperatives tend to last longer and are less susceptible to perverse incentives and other problems of organizational governance than more traditionally managed organizations.The founders of Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi in the United States, cite Mondragon as a key inspiration.NEWS, Moskowitz, P. E., 24 April 2017, Meet the Radical Workers' Cooperative Growing in the Heart of the Deep South, en-US, The Nation,weblink 16 August 2020, 0027-8378, 1 March 2021,weblink live,Mondragon in fiction
Works of Kim Stanley Robinson
In 2312, a science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, the Mondragon Corporation has evolved into a planned economy system called the Mondragon Accord.BOOK,weblink
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, The Mondragon Accord is controlled by means of a network of AIs running on quantum computers, and rules large parts of the Solar System, including Mercury and most of the moons of the gas giants; only part of Earth, and its colonies in space, retain remnants of capitalist economies, while Mars has withdrawn from the Accord in the century preceding the story. The Mondragon Corporation already appeared in Robinson's earlier Mars trilogy, as one of the Terran groups involved in the colonization and terraforming of Mars; the coop is also portrayed as the inspiration of both the bogdanovist movement WEB
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, and the libertarian-leaning Praxis CorporationWEB,weblink A rebuke by Vlad Taneev from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Blue Mars", claecceity.wordpress.com, 4 March 2015, 21 July 2017, 24 April 2020,weblink live, two of the main forces leading the revolution for the independence of Mars. In Robinson's book The Ministry for the Future, the Mondragon Corporation is introduced in chapter 58 as a model for a future, post-capitalist, cooperative economy.WEB,weblink Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson, 22 October 2020, Jacobin, 24 November 2020, 25 November 2020,weblink live,
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, and the libertarian-leaning Praxis CorporationWEB,weblink A rebuke by Vlad Taneev from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Blue Mars", claecceity.wordpress.com, 4 March 2015, 21 July 2017, 24 April 2020,weblink live, two of the main forces leading the revolution for the independence of Mars. In Robinson's book The Ministry for the Future, the Mondragon Corporation is introduced in chapter 58 as a model for a future, post-capitalist, cooperative economy.WEB,weblink Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson, 22 October 2020, Jacobin, 24 November 2020, 25 November 2020,weblink live,
See also
- Cecosesola, association of cooperatives in Venezuela
- Distributism
- Horizontalidad
- John Lewis Partnership
- List of worker cooperatives
- Workers' self-management
References
{{Reflist|refs=}}Further reading
- Azurmendi, Joxe 1984: El hombre cooperativo
- Spanish white goods company Fagor seeks protection from creditors (October 2013)
- Thousands of Fagor employees demand in Mondragon town to keep their jobs (October 2013)
- White-goods giant Fagor goes into administration (October 2013)
- Cooperation for Economic Success. The Mondragon Case (2011) in Analyse & Kritik, 33 (1), 157â170 . Ramon Flecha & Iñaqui Santa Cruz.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120425131808weblink"weblink
- Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (1991), William Whyte. {{ISBN|0-87546-182-4}}
- We Build the Road as We Travel: Mondragon, A Cooperative Social System, Roy Morrison. {{ISBN|0-86571-173-9}}
- The Mondragon Cooperative Experience (1993), J. Ormachea.
- Cooperation at Work: The Mondragon Experience (1983), K. Bradely & A. Gelb.
- Values at Work: Employees participation meets market pressure at Mondragon (1999), G. Cheney.
- Mondragon: An economic analysis (1982), C. Logan & H. Thomas.
- The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town (1996), by Sharryn Kasmir, State University of New York Press.
- From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development (1997), by G. MacLeod, University College of Cape Breton Press. {{ISBN|0-920336-53-1}}
- "Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society" (1999), by Race Mathews, Pluto Press (Australia) and Comerford & Miller (London). {{ISBN|1-86403-064-X}}. US reprint 2009, The Distributist Review Press. {{ISBN|978-0-9679707-9-0}}.
- "Rag Radio: Carl Davidson on Mondragon and Workers' Cooperatives," The Rag Blog, September 15, 2011 Interview by Thorne Dreyer (44:05)
- Articles about the Mondragon Corporation on The Rag Blog
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