This week, we've got the penultimate chapter of Luis Razeto Migliaro's Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy, in which the author explains how a democratic market might function and how it can be achieved in spite of the forces of monopoly and centralization.
Then, members of four worker cooperatives in the creative arts field talk about why they choose the co-op model, and how cooperative business models benefit creative workers.Â
Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 19
by Luis Razeto Migliaro, transl. by Matt Noyes
The development of a broad cooperative sector has, from the standpoint of the dispersal necessary for the “perfecting” and democratization of the market, a double effect: by autonomizing the subordinated categories it reduces the capital’s extraordinary profit margins, counteracting the process of capitalist accumulation and concentration. At the same time, by creating new possibilities of development of cooperatively organized categories, it leads to their growing dispersal, thus rendering unnecessary their defensive subordinated organization.
Creative Worker Co-ops
by BRIC Foundation
A worker cooperative is a business that is owned and controlled by its workers. It is an underused model in the cultural industry that channels the creative power and freedom of the workers to build a world grounded in solidarity. Join us in this discussion on how Creative Workers Cooperatives function and how you can make one too!Â
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