Humanity @ Work & Life : Global Diffusion of the Mondragon Cooperative Ecosystem Experience.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clamp, Christina.

Contributor:

Peck, Michael Alden.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperative societies.

Employee ownership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cork : Oak Tree Press, 2023.

Summary:

The four concurrent global pandemics have shone a harsher light on inequalities in society and offer opportunities to develop hybrid worker ownership models that seed virtuous cycles. This book's core belief is that there is no sustaining worker voice without worker power communicated and demonstrated through solidarity, democracy, equality of opportunity and shared equity and wealth outcomes. Its premise is that an ineluctable foundational policy for a fair and aspirational economy working for all demands inclusive, broadened, and deepened, stakeholder worker ownership undergirded by workplace democracy practices. Like Mondragon, we believe single class equity governance is synonymous with solidarity. Every equity share guarantees the equal right to vote for change and provides the basis for power-paradigm-changing culture combining stakeholder community and individual civic mutualism, stability, and self-reliance to innovate, defend and facilitate more fulfilled lives and dignified retirements. The core academic purpose of HUMANITY @ WORK & LIFE is to make the case as to why Mondragon is a dynamic working and evolving model for those who see the need for replicable structural change in our economic institutions and in the proverbial "free market" economy across physical borders and cultural silos. The Mondragon case will be detailed and include both an overview of ecosystem cooperatives and discussion of global diffusion activities that the Mondragon cooperatives embrace locally and globally as well as those from other geographies inspired by close to 70+ years of Mondragon cooperative experiences. The book will include sections that examine how cooperatives inspired by the Mondragon cooperative ecosystem in the Basque region of Spain are emerging in different communities in the USA, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Korea, and the UK. The last section of the book is intended to provide grounded inspiration about how to develop worker cooperatives and ecosystems that scale and breathe freely in a world beset by culturally induced pandemics doing their utmost to subvert democracy, freedom, truth, and hope.

Contents:

Dedication

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Foreword / Rebecca Henderson

Introduction

Part 1: Reimagining Capitalism

Cooperative capitalism at the Coalface / Michael Peck

What's in a name? Conceptual frameworks for a cooperative world / Jason Spicer

The racial equity collaborative: "undesigning" American racism through cooperative community & workplace democracy / Charles Chawalko, Sandra McCardell, Elroy Natuchu, Kandis Quam, April de Simone & Damien Goodmon

Part 2: Social Innovation in the Mondragon Cooperatives

The power of social innovation in the Mondragon experience: setting the stage / Christina Clamp

An interview with Julio Gallastegui / Christina Clamp

The "own the metrics" campaign: ESGs & SDGs meet their proto alegre moment / Ibon Zugasti & Michael Peck

The footprints of the Catholic church's social doctrine in Mondragon's experience: future projection / Jésus María Herrasti

Mentoring Best Practices from Spain’s Basque Region – 1: The Gaztenpresa Case Study / Christina Clamp & Michael Peck

Mentoring Best Practices from Spain’s Basque Region – 2: The Ahalbidetu Case Study / José Arturo Villanueva Barriocanal, José Miguel Martínez Urquijo & José Antonio López Egaña

The Mondragon Team Academy & TAZEBAEZ / Ana Aguirre - The Erreka Coop Reimagined: The Industrial Screw Case Study / Imanol Olaskoaga

Ten Reasons for Mondragon/ Agustín Markaide Soraluce

Part 3: Mondragon's global influence

The Role of Faith & Civic Action: Pope Francis, Catholic Social Justice & Mondragon / Brian Corbin & Michael Peck

From Mondragón to Preston. How the Basque Experience has Influencedthe Preston Model / Julian Manley

As German Unions Struggle to Save Jobs, Worker Buyouts Are on the Rise / David O’Connell

Mondragon’s Influence in Korea / Sang-Youn Lee & Garam Lee

Part 4: Worker ownership in America

Mondragon: A Model for a New Paradigm of Development / Dan Swinney

Platform Co-ops & Emerging Possibilities: An Interview with Doug O’Brien / Christina Clamp & Michael Peck

“Co-op Cincy”: A Living Lab for the 1worker1vote Movement / Kristen Barker & Ellen Vera

Citizen Share Brooklyn: Addressing Structural Racial & Economic Inequalityvia Economic Democracy / Roger Green

Building Mondragon in Detroit: An Interesting Context for an InterestingTranslation / Terry Lewis

Reflection: What Then Shall We Do? / Chris Cooper

Structuring Worker Ownership in America: Coming Clean & Going Long/ Michael Peck

Part 5: Resource challenges for new worker cooperative development

Our Humble Harvest: Gathering the Right Lessons from Mondragon tobuild a North American Cooperative Ecosystem / Esteban Kelly

Labor Unions & Worker Co-ops: Democratizing the Economy/ Mary Hoyer & Rebecca Lurie

- Worx Printing Cooperative: A Union Worker Co-op Case Example/ Kevin O’Brien

Placing Where We Place Value: Cooperatives, Cultural Norms & ChallengesCo-ops Face in the US / Caitlin Gianniny

Worker-owned & Unionized Worker-owned Cooperatives: Two Tools toAddress Income Inequality / Carmen Huertas-Noble

Financing Worker Cooperatives: Challenges & Opportunities / John Holdsclaw IV

Reflection: Building the New Mutualism / Sara Horowitz

Coonncclluussiioonnss:: Virtually Convening the Contributors: A Round Table Discussion / Christina Clamp & Michael Peck.

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ISBN:

1-78119-544-7

1-78119-543-9

OCLC:

1476644096