On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or find the the surviving participants in this experiment in employee
> ownership in the US that was in the news 30 add years ago:
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> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947132,00.html
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> 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.
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> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net>wrote:
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>> 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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