Workers' Co-operatives and Trade Unions: The Italian Experience

Jenny Thornley
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Jenny Thornley: Co-operatives Research Unit, Open University, Milton Keynes

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1983, vol. 4, issue 3, 321-344

Abstract: The paper examines the influence of trade unions on workers' co-operatives in Italy both at a political level, and inside the co-operatives. Over the last ten years the unions have stimulated the conversion to co-operatives of many failed capitalist firms as a method of saving jobs. Rescue ventures are the main growth area among manufacturing co-operatives. They have created new problems for the co-operative movement but clear working relations have developed which divide conversion tasks according to the expertise of the unions and co-operative movement. Inside the Lega co-operatives the unions have failed to adapt their roles as worker representatives to suit the changing character of co-operatives.

Date: 1983
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