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patrice

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14. Perhaps you can see that I think individual workers should consider their own labor as their own

Reply to patrice (Reply #13)

Sat Jun 2, 2012, 06:17 PM

Jun 2012

personal capital, an idea that is found in The Wealth of Nations, chapter 1, when Adam Smith defines Real Value as work, without which there are no economic relationships.

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Chicago Factory Occupiers Form Worker Cooperative [View all] nxylas Jun 2012 OP

+1 limpyhobbler Jun 2012 #1

This is how I think the auto bailouts should have gone. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #2

Who best to trust with the life of an economic enterprise than those who do the WORK of that entrpse patrice Jun 2012 #6

Here's something I wrote a while ago on how to structure a worker-owned business: Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #12

That's along the lines that I have been thinking . . . with an addition relative to some way to patrice Jun 2012 #13

Perhaps you can see that I think individual workers should consider their own labor as their own patrice Jun 2012 #14

Me too. zeemike Jun 2012 #8

Was that the Mondragon co-op? nxylas Jun 2012 #11

No this was a US company that made robotic equipment. zeemike Jun 2012 #15

Who does their IT? Their "expert" skills? boppers Jun 2012 #20

There are a lot of ways that could be handled. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #21

So, if contractors, not part of the workforce, no ownership? boppers Jun 2012 #31

These questions would need to be worked out, of course, but they are at a level of detail Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #36

I, too, hope this will become a trend. Brigid Jun 2012 #3

One factory at a time nxylas Jun 2012 #4

There's room for a lot of creativity here. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #22

YES! Let the workers agree amongst themselves what "value" is!!! Solidarity, UEW Local 1110!!! patrice Jun 2012 #5

I dunno how they can stay in business without a CEO making 200 times more than shcrane71 Jun 2012 #7

They're not in business. Igel Jun 2012 #10

Truncation does not necessarily have to result in termination, does it. Of course, it depends upon patrice Jun 2012 #17

I've always believed that workers will screw themselves over far more than management can Major Nikon Jun 2012 #18

I don't see voluntarily taking on more work as screwing themselves over nxylas Jun 2012 #19

Randroids are the models for the projection defense mechanism. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #23

I don't either Major Nikon Jun 2012 #28

I'd love to see the day when a Co-op becomes too big to fail. shcrane71 Jun 2012 #27

The Co-Operative here in the UK is getting there nxylas Jun 2012 #35

"Armando Robles, president of the United Electrical Workers Local 1110" HiPointDem Jun 2012 #9

A Hundred Years of Servitude humus Jun 2012 #16

Thanks for this contribution. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #24

This is really great news. Marrah_G Jun 2012 #25

Progress. BlueIris Jun 2012 #26

OOPS! This won't do............. socialist_n_TN Jun 2012 #29

Reminds me of Naomi Klein's "the Take." Also, 2012 is the UN International Year of Cooperatives suffragette Jun 2012 #30

Love the last paragraph of Ebert's review nxylas Jun 2012 #33

It's great when he gets feisty suffragette Jun 2012 #34

Eventually we will do this as we become the government. nt Zorra Jun 2012 #32