Mondragon: An Economic Analysis (Routledge Library Editions: Employee Ownership and Economic Democracy)

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- I. Why 'Mondragon'? -- Workers' control -- A Labour-Managed Economy -- Plan of Work and the Main Findings -- II. An Historical and Organisational Overview -- Introduction -- The Basque Nation: Structural Changes -- The Formative Years of the Mondragon Experiment 1943-56 -- The Early Cooperatives 1956-60 -- Basic Economic Principles -- Organisation -- The Decade of Expansion 1961-70 -- Further Developments: Education, Consumers and Social Security -- Years of Consolidation 1971-79 -- New Structures for the Future -- III. Cooperators: Work and Training -- Introduction -- Employment Creation -- Absenteeism -- Education: An Overview -- Division of Labour and Work -- Conclusions -- IV. The Planning of Finance -- Introduction -- Credit Organisations -- A Credit Cooperative -- Incomes and Expenditures -- Liabilities and Assets -- Planning of Investments -- CLP and other Financial Institutions -- Conclusions -- V. Economic Performance of the Cooperative Factories -- Introduction -- Economic Growth -- Cooperative Productivity -- Cooperative Profitability -- Cooperatives and Branches of Economic Activity -- Scale of Operations -- Economic Performance and the 'Age' of Cooperatives -- Financial Structure -- Capital-Intensity of Production -- Conclusions -- VI. Distribution of Earnings and Surplus -- Introduction -- Planning of Earnings -- Trends -- Pay Differentials -- Social Security -- Distribution of Surplus -- Conclusions -- VII. A Self-Managed Sector -- Introduction -- The Economics of Mondragon -- Limits of Transition? -- Dispersion -- Decentralisation -- Conclusions -- VIII. Policy Perspectives -- Introduction -- Development and Workers' Participation -- Industrialised Countries -- Socio-Economic Systems -- Bibliography

• | Author: Henk Thomas, Chris Logan
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 16, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138561371
• | ISBN-13: 9781138561373