Making Mondragón : : The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex / / Kathleen King Whyte, William Foote Whyte.
Since its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to education. In its industrial sector Mondragón has had a rich experienc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Second Edition |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 p.) :; 1 map, 2 graphs, 6 tables, 2 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Part One. Mondragόn in Context
- 1. The Importance of Mondragόn
- 2. The Basques
- Part Two. Building the Cooperative Complex
- 3. The Foundation
- 4. The First Worker Cooperatives
- 5. Supporting Organizations and Diversification
- 6. Cooperative Groups
- 7. Applied Industrial Research
- 8. The Central Role of the Cooperative Bank
- Part Three. Managing Change
- 9. Coping with Internal Conflict
- 10. Rethinking the Systems of Participation
- 11. Changing the Organization of Work
- Part Four. Coping with the Worldwide Recession
- 12. Sacrificing for Collective Survival
- 13. Providing for Unemployment Compensation and Support
- 14. From ULARCO to FAGOR
- 15. Expanding Service and Agribusiness Cooperatives
- 16. The Changing Role of the Caja Laboral Popular
- Part Five. Restructuring for the 1990s and Beyond
- 17. Strategic Organizational Restructuring
- 18. Facing the Social Challenges of Intensified Competition
- Part Six. Lessons from Mondragόn
- 19. Uriderstanding Mondragόn’s Founder
- 20. Ethnic and Organizational Cultures
- 21. Implications of the Mondragόn Experience
- Appendix. Evolution of Our Research on Mondragόn
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors