One Approach - Four Options
Workers´ Cooperative - Labour Contracting Cooperative - Workers´ Take-over - Shared Services
- The traditional workers’ cooperatives; Mondragon as one of the most successful examples (but also the SCOP in France);
- Labour contracting cooperatives; very successful in forestry and construction on the Indian sub-continent (about 13 million jobs in India);
- Workers’ take over; "ESOP" type businesses (5 million jobs in the US); United Airlines as a famous example (54.000 employees); In 1999, UA had a turnover of 18 bn $ and a net profit of USD 1.7 billion.
- Shared service cooperatives: independent entrepreneurs share services through a coop. DENIC, the name server operated by German’s Internet Service Providers, as a modern example. DENIC was established in 1997 and grew since then from 41 to 110 members (May 2000). Other examples are EDEKA, Best Western Hotels, and Nugget Distributors in the US.
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Posted: 19 July 2000
