Archive for Category: "Cooperatives"
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.
Hard Times in Farm Country
The destruction of productive wealth is not good for farmers and ranchers and it’s not good for rural communities and it’s not good for our urban communities either. It’s called “eating your capital” and is a sign of desperation wherever it occurs.
The People’s Supermarket
Farmers are very often forced into destroying vast quantities of their produce, because it doesn’t fit the narrow, mostly ‘aesthetic’, criteria employed to select food for sale at supermarkets or to restaurants. The People’s Supermarket has made a very important decision in deciding to work directly with local producers and effectively guarantee to buy all their produce and bring it to market.
Industry: A Distributist Solution Part II
While most large-scale industries reduce the level of ownership in our society and treat labor as a cost instead of a partner in the production process, cooperatives are the Distributist answer to increase widespread ownership of the means of production.
Industry: The Distributist Solution Part I
Economists advise our congressional leaders, the heads of banks, large-scale industry, and corporate goliaths about economic shifts and their impact on industry because they are under the impression that as a nation we rise and fall according to industrial production.
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.
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.