http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947132,00.html
I believe there was even a 60 Minutes piece on the company. The company still exists in the Youngstown area, as Salem-Republic Hose Manufacturing. However, from what I can gather from the internet, it was bought and is no longer employee owned, although it is privately held. Whatever its current status may be, at least the employees of 1979 saved the company and their jobs.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net>wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 8:05 AM, John Gulick wrote:
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> No claims, but folks interested in the worker ownership/control issue can
> check out the video of RW with Gar Alperovitz and others at Left Forum:
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> http://rdwolff.com/content/**left-strategies-exit-crisis<http://rdwolff.com/content/left-strategies-exit-crisis>
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> Also, Gregory Dow's text "Governing the Firm" [Cambridge U. Press] is
> indispensable for arguing with/learning from as he uses mainstream
> categories like adverse selection and such to come to some very interesting
> conclusions. He's got a lot of hard data on Mondragon and Lega as well as
> stuff on Yugoslavia. Also worth a peek although showing some age is Robin
> Archer's "Economic Democracy: The Politics of Feasible Socialism" [Oxford U.
> Press].
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> Perhaps there's a way to arrange a friendly airlift of some workers from
> Argentina to NYC to chat?
>
> Ian
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