The Hon. Race Mathews is a former Australian academic, federal MP, state MP and minister, municipal councillor and chief of staff to Labor Party leaders in the federal and state parliaments. He has written and spoken widely on politics, political history and public policy. Dr. Mathews is the author of Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society: Alternatives to the Market and the State.

Mondragon Revisited

Revisiting recently for the fifth time, it was impossible not to be impressed by the resilience that has enabled them (Mondragon) to take their share of economic hits and emerge largely unscathed.

Mondragón: Rendimiento pasado y potencial futuro

En la opinión de Arizmendiarrieta, la solución en la esfera económica era simple. Los trabajadores deberían contratar al capital y no viceversa, de tal modo que se le permita a los trabajadores asumir la propiedad de sus lugares de trabajo y convertirse en dueños de sus propios destinos.

Distributism: A Précis

Distributism favours a ‘society of owners’, where property belongs to the many rather than the few, and correspondingly opposes the concentration of property in the hands of the rich, as under capitalism, or the state, as advocated by some socialists.

Mondragón and the Global Economic Meltdown

From a standing start in 1956, the MCC has grown to the point where by mid-2008 it was the seventh largest business group in Spain. Annual sales increased between 2006 and 2007 by 12.4 per cent to some $US20 billion, and overall employment by 24 per cent, from 83,601 to 103,731.