The Mondragon Cooperative System

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After many years of study and contemplation, I've come to the conclusion that the majority of the world's social, economic and political problems find a nexus in how capital resources are localized and democratized. It is my view that a good society has most of its capital locally owned with the distribution of it in as many hands as possible. Profits to capital should be recycled in the local community. Jobs in a community should not be held hostage to the potential capital flight.
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[Mondragon Cooperative Corporation] [Individual Cooperatives Within the Mondragon System] [Other References to the Mondragon System] [Mondragon Related Books] [Other Websites] "Nothing differentiates people as much as their respective attitudes to the circumstances in which they live. Those who opt to make history and change the course of events themselves have an advantage over those who decide to wait passively for the results of the change". Jose-Mara Arizmendiarrieta Conceptual Creator of the Mondragon Cooperative System Mondragon Cooperative Corporation One of the best current models for how capital might be localized is the Mondragon system of cooperatives in Mondragon, Spain. The Mondragon system is noted for its democratic worker-owner structure and the economic success that it has enjoyed over the many decades of existence.

Mondragon Cooperative Corporation (MCC) - Home Pages The Mondragon Cooperative's T.U.Lankide Magazine Mondragon Cooperative Publications Mondragon Corporacion Cooperative, Spain - Brief Description and Contact Information Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa, Spain - Detailed Description Co-op Study 7 - Mondragon Co-operatives by Manfred Davidmann

Other References to the Mondragon System

Mondragn's Answers to Utopia's Problems by Kenneth R. Hoover Mondragn: The Remarkable Achievement by Robert Gilman (In Context) The Larger Context For Economics by Francois Duquesne (In Context) Re: Getting to work - George A. Gleason to Erik The Third Way Is Hereby Terry Mollner (In Context) Grow-Power For Land Trusts by Terry Mollner (In Context) Alternative Forms of Fundraising by Ulf Andersson Escape from Capitalism: Lessons from the Mondragon Experience Mutualist Options for Regional Economic Development and Empowerment: The Mondragon and Desjardins Cases Co-operatives and Co-operation: Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success by Manfred Davidmann A New Cooperative Commonwealth by David Morris (Institute for Local SelfReliance) On The Quality Community Quest, We Are Not Alone by Carole and David Schwinn An Economically Workable Vision of Socialism by Andrew English Your Community Wants You by Darcy Hitchcock (Axis Performance Advisors, Inc.) What Should One Strive for [in] the Second Wave of Privatization in FR Yugoslavia? A Not So Radical Agenda for a Sustainable Global Future by David C. Korten Can Coops Go Global? Mondragon Is Trying by Tim Huet (Dollars & Sense)

Mondragon Related Books Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Martian Trilogy by George Mokray for Information Ecologies The Mars Trilogy (Science Fiction Weekly) Blue Mars: Reviewed by Clinton Lawrence (Science Fiction Weekly) The Martian Constitution (Science Fiction Weekly) Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson Answers Your Questions (Science Fiction Weekly) Robinson Completes Mars Trilogy, Turns to Antarctica by Elisabeth Sherwin From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development by Gregory MacLeod

`Mondragon' Translates New Twist on Capitalism by Terry O'Keefe Mondragon Pastor Made Ideas Real by Stephanie Vincec and Greg MacLeod From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development - Amazon.com St. Francis Xavier University - Extension Department Store

We Build the Road as We Travel and Ecological Democracy by Roy Morrison

We Build the Road as We Travel- Essential Book Publishers We Build the Road as We Travel - Amazon.com The Best of TRANET (From TRANET #71 : Mondragon is More Than an Economic System...) Boston Book Review: Hinting at the Counter-Revolution by Dara O'Rourke (Review of Roy Morrison's Ecological Democracy) Making Mondragon by William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte

Making Mondragon : The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, No 14) Amazon.com In Memoriam: William F. Whyte The Myth of Mondragon by Sharryn Kasmir

The Myth of Mondragon - SUNY Press The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town (SUNY Series in the Anthropology of Work) by Sharryn Kasmir Amazon.com From the Ground Up: Essays on Grassroots & Workplace Democracy by C. George Benello

Review of C. George Benello's From the Ground Up: Essays on Grassroots and Workplace Democracy by Colin Ward

Other Websites

International and Comparative Management - Business 162 - Spring 1999 - Edfelt (College of Business - San Jose State University) Ten Solutions to Transform Victorian Capitalism into Democratic Capitalism by David M. Boje Building the future. That's about as easy as following the wind, eh? Harvard Review on Linux and E-lance Economy (Slashdot.org) Jay's Cooperative Links Richard Provan's Home Page Furniture Manufacturing in Canada Essential Books: Some Links We Like

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