This week, the Progressive News Network talks with Delia Marx about the Westchester Cooperative Network, a group that seeks to educate the public about worker co-ops, as well as serving as a bridge between interested members of the community and local, experienced, co-op developers. This interview also contains a short video about the conversion of Manhattan's Green Mountain Graphics to a worker cooperative.
Then, we continue with our translation of Luis Razeto Migliaro's Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy, in which the author presents an analysis of the internal dynamics of worker co-ops and makes an argument that they operate in ways that more closely resemble the "perfect competition" of standard economic theory than traditional capitalist firms.Â
The Westchester Cooperative Network
by Progressive News Network
Chuck Bell interviews Delia Marx of Westchester Cooperative Network about the organization's work to promote the development of worker-owned cooperatives in Westchester, County, NY.Â
Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 11
by Luis Razeto Migliaro
The outstanding characteristic of these workers’ enterprises would be the tendency to privilege qualitative growth over quantitative growth: they are driven not to establish gigantic enterprises but rather comparatively small enterprises, with fewer workers, but high productivity due to a more rapid process of innovation and technological improvement. This supports the development of communitarian human relations and the real participation of members of the labor collective in the management and control of the productive and economic processes in general.Â
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