Hey, wassup??? You guys sleeping on the job again??? Let's get to talking again. We can talk about anything you like. I'm currently in San Francisco for a few...
Ok, I have a challenge question (not for you William, unless you'd care to take a crack at it): 1) Why are worker cooperatives so rare in the U.S? and 2) Based...
I will try to clarify and to answer your questions. Workers cooperatives are rare since they do not belong to their members at all. Workers cooperatives are...
Zvi, The formation of a worker cooperative (not considering whether it survives or not) is in itself an exceedingly rare event. I have never in 30 years of ...
Worker cooperatives are, in the large part, so well run that they have NO turnover. A friend of mine went to work for Full Sail Brewing after a couple of years...
... These are really the same question since if one knows why cooperatives are so rare, the most effective way to have more of them is to change what makes...
Doug, You are speaking about few points: - Why people don't want to join workers coop. - Why workers coop are not looking for new members or workers. -...
The number of new workers in worker co-ops each year is approximated by the following equation: (nw * nc) + (ew - dw) * ec where: nw - avg. number of workers...
... <snip> ... One of the ways to increase trust amongst a group of relative strangers is for the group to agree to learn and practice an inter-personal...
I believe this is my first post to this group. Greetings. I am an attorney in solo practice in the greater Los Angeles area. I am interested in assisting (on...
Steve Strimer Collective Copies, Amherst and Florence, MA One simple way of looking at "the reason there are not more worker coops" in the U.S. is that the...
Hello I work for a very wonderful worker-owned cooperative and currently we are discussing/changing our commuting inventives. For instance: our company pays us...
... So it would make sense for somebody looking to form a worker cooperative to get involved in any kind of cooperative project that approximates what they...
... No doubt this is the culture. For an average Joe or Jane, who is working in a traditional company and has heard about worker cooperatives, what first steps...
... I work with folks from a very small worker cooperative every day. It is a print shop in Denver, an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) print shop. They...
Hi, I believe this is my first post to this group also, although I read it regularly. In any case I am responding to Ross Heckmann who asked for suggestions...
I'm changing the name of this thread. WC ... <snip> ... have proposed spinning off a franchising collective whose business would be providing systems,...
... That's just it--cooperatives function within a larger corporate capitalist framework that determines the dominant institutional mindset in an industry. ...
... Why not? Isn't this a problem? Any successful capitalist corporation would be trying to grow. Full Sail Brewing looks successful. Why aren't they...
Right, we should support true free market libertarian capitalism, not the corporate socialism and fascism that misleadingly calls itself "capitalism" but is...
There is no such thing as a free market, at any scale larger than the tribe/village. There never has been, and there never will be. A theoretical free market...
... There's never been a fully free market since the beginning of recorded history; there's also never been a society free of class exploitation and privilege,...
You're right in that in most cases (in the REAL world so far) the winners often rig the system and take over to create a monopoly for them, and use political...
By the way I read that there actually was a free market libertarian anarcho-capitalist society, Iceland for a few hundred years, there was no ruler and no...
What David is referring to here is an excellent article in Common Ground magazine, an SF Bay Area "new age" mag. The article is about Arizmendi and there is...
... They may already be at the ideal size for an enterprise that's fully internalized its own costs. A capitalist enterprise is able to grow past the point of...
Hello, For those interested, new papers are ready to be downloaded. In English: 1. Failures of Cooperatives. by Zvi Galor FailuresofCooperatives.doc ...
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to forming worker coops is the identification of a business that would succeed in today's economy. Coupled with that is the...
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