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Decent Jobs through Worker-owned Cooperatives

All types of cooperatives create jobs, but this presentation focuses on worker owned cooperatives.

• Mr Albert Thomas, the first Director General of the ILO, came from the cooperative movement and established the Cooperative Branch in 1920.
• Mr Juan Somavia, the present Director General, developed the concept of decent work.

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Posted: 19 July 2000