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The striking economic success of Mondragon has conveyed worldwide the message that a worker cooperative need no longer be considered simply a utopian ideal of a few visionaries on the fringes of an industrial economy. The complex is attracting increasing attention and interest from both practitioners and scholars searching or better ways of organizing production and distribution and the relations between labor and management. | The striking economic success of Mondragon has conveyed worldwide the message that a worker cooperative need no longer be considered simply a utopian ideal of a few visionaries on the fringes of an industrial economy. The complex is attracting increasing attention and interest from both practitioners and scholars searching or better ways of organizing production and distribution and the relations between labor and management. | ||
==Cooperatives in the US== | |||
The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives is the only organization in the U.S. representing worker cooperative interests nationally. There are local networks and federations throughout the U.S. in the San Francisco Bay area, Minnesota, Portland, Oregon, and Boston, Massachusetts, and the Pioneer Valley region of New England. | |||
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The striking economic success of Mondragon has conveyed worldwide the message that a worker cooperative need no longer be considered simply a utopian ideal of a few visionaries on the fringes of an industrial economy. The complex is attracting increasing attention and interest from both practitioners and scholars searching or better ways of organizing production and distribution and the relations between labor and management.
Cooperatives in the US
The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives is the only organization in the U.S. representing worker cooperative interests nationally. There are local networks and federations throughout the U.S. in the San Francisco Bay area, Minnesota, Portland, Oregon, and Boston, Massachusetts, and the Pioneer Valley region of New England.
What is a Cooperative Corporation | Internal Structure | Mondragón Cooperative Corporation | Creation and Use of Social Capital | The Future of Cooperative Corporations | Could It Work in the US