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oapen-20.500.12657-879492024-03-28T14:03:22Z Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society Reuten, Geert a worker cooperatives society alternative to capitalism capitalism and state socialism council democracy democracy at enterprises level democratic alternative to capitalism democratic alternative to the capitalist full democracy including at enterprise level means of production mode of production Mondragon worker-owned cooperatives non-capitalist alternative to state socialism non-worker-owned versus worker-owned ownership right to the fruits of a worker cooperative social systems state institutions transition from capitalism without owning the cooperative worker cooperatives worker councils of state institutions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it, thereby making a convincing case. In Reuten’s design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns the means of production. The legal structure of worker cooperatives is such that workers have full rights to the fruits of the cooperative without owning it, and yet the state does not own the cooperatives either. Interestingly, worker councils in the economic and state domains vote on all economically relevant matters. In Reuten’s work, the free choice of occupation and of specific consumer goods is even larger than in capitalism. 2024-02-23T14:18:53Z 2024-02-23T14:18:53Z 2023 book ONIX_20240223_9789004531086_27 9789004531086 9789004531079 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87949 eng application/pdf n/a 9789004531086.pdf https://brill.com/display/title/63765 Brill 10.1163/9789004531086 10.1163/9789004531086 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 9789004531086 9789004531079 open access
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What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it, thereby making a convincing case. In Reuten’s design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns the means of production. The legal structure of worker cooperatives is such that workers have full rights to the fruits of the cooperative without owning it, and yet the state does not own the cooperatives either. Interestingly, worker councils in the economic and state domains vote on all economically relevant matters. In Reuten’s work, the free choice of occupation and of specific consumer goods is even larger than in capitalism.
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