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Worker cooperatives in America

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Author(s): Robert Jackall; Henry M Levin
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 1984

Language: English
Pages: 311
City: Berkeley
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Part 1. Introduction. Chapter 1. Work in America and the cooperative movement / Robert Jackall and Henry M. Levin --
Chapter 2. Employment and productivity of producer cooperatives / Henry M. Levin --
Part 2. Historical perspectives on worker cooperatives. Chapter 3. American producer cooperatives and employee-owned firms: a historical perspective / Derek C. Jones --
Chapter 4. Self-help production cooperatives: government-administered cooperatives during the depression / Derek C. Jones and Donald J. Schneider --
Part 3. The contemporary small cooperative movement. Chapter 5. The shape of the small worker cooperative movement / Robert Jackall and Joyce Crain --
Chapter 6. Paradoxes of collective work: a study of the cheeseboard, Berkeley, California / Robert Jackall --
Part 4. Toward larger cooperatives. Chapter 7. Hoedads co-op: democracy and cooperation at work / Christopher Gunn --
Chapter 8. Producer cooperatives and democratic theory: the case of the plywood firms / Edward S. Greenberg --
Part 5. Special issues for worker cooperatives. Chapter 9. Obstacles to the survival of democratic workplaces / Zelda F. Gamson and Henry M. Levin --
Chapter 10. ESOPs and the financing of worker-cooperatives / Henry M. Levin --
Chapter 11. Workers' cooperatives: the question of legal structure / David Ellerman --
Part 6. Conclusion. Chapter 12. The prospects for worker cooperatives in the United States / Robert Jackall and Henry M. Levin.