Worker cooperatives

Maliha Safri

Chapter 3 in The Handbook of Diverse Economies, 2020, pp 40-47 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Worker cooperatives are defined as productive firms that produce and sell goods and services; they are firms in which workers make important decisions about what, when, where, and how to produce. This chapter explains briefly the global spread of worker cooperatives, and then elaborates the spectrum of possibilities existing in worker cooperatives in terms of (1) governance and decision making, and (2) wage and profit determination. Worker cooperatives hold the potential for being a radically different way to sustain workers and communities, but the firms are also shaped by the conditions and markets in which they operate.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788119955/9781788119955.00011.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:18372_3

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().