ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF OWNERSHIP
Relevant
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Publications
Videos
Organizations
Author: Lincoln Cushing
Much of the research in labor relations and organizational
development is concerned with conventional post-industrial
revolution business models, featuring private,
corporate, or state ownership of the means of
production and a hired labor force. These models
almost invariably involve dynamic tension between
owners, managers, and workers. However, there
are ways to structure an enterprise that are predicated
on shared ownership by the workforce and democratic
management processes. Although these approaches
represent only a fraction of businesses, they
stand out as testing beds that encourage "thinking
outside the box" and offer many valuable
lessons.
The following directory is a selective list of key
resources on this topic, and will be updated periodically
as resources evolve.
Relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Employee ownership
Labor-management committees
Management-Employee participation
Work Groups
Works councils
Call numbers and UC library location in parentheses.
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Publications
Dewey on Democracy, by W. Caspary, 2000,
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. (JC251.D48.C37,
Main)
The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm: A New Model
for the East and West, by D. Ellerman, 1990,
Unwin Hyman, Winchester, MA. (HD5650.E4, Business
& Economics, Moffitt)
An Economy of Hope: Annotated National Directory
of Worker Co-ops, Democratic ESOP's, Sustainable
Enterprises, Support Organizations, and Resources,
by editors of GEO (Ecological Democracy Institute
of North America), 2000, Stillwater, PA. [Not
in library]
"Community Economic Development: Alternative
Visions for the 21st Century", by Jessica
Gordon Nembhard, Readings in Black Political
Economy, Vol. 21 No. 1, summer 1999.
Employee Ownership - Revolution or Ripoff?,
by Joseph Raphael Blasi, 1988, Ballinger Publishing.
(HD5660.U5B569, IIRL)
Employee Ownership in America - The Equity
Solution, by M. Rosen, Katherine J. Klein,
and Karen M. Young, 1986, Lexington Books. (HD5660.U5R67,
IIRL)
From Mondragon to America - Experiments in
Community Economic Development, by Greg MacLeod,
[ND], UCCB Press, Nova Scotia, Canada. ISBN: 0-920336-53-1
Making Mondragon, by W. Whyte and K. White,
1991, ILR Press, Ithaca, NY. (HD3218.M66.W48,
IIRL, Business & Economics)
Sharing Ownership in the Workplace, by
Raymond Russell, 1985, State University of New
York Press. (HD5650.R744, IIRL)
The Cooperative Workplace - Potentials and
dilemmas of organizational democracy and participation,
by Joyce Rothschild and J. Allen Whitt, 1986,
Cambridge University Press. (HD5650.R736, IIRL)
The Myth of Mondragon - Cooperatives, Politics,
and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town, A volume
in the SUNY series Anthropology of Work, by
Sharryn Kasmir, [ND], State University of New
York Press, Albany, NY. (HD3528.M66.K37, Main)
Unheard Voices - Labor and Economic Policy
in a Competitive World, by Ray Marshall, 1987,
Basic Books. (HD5660.U5, IIRL)
"Wage Cuts and the Fairness of Pay in a
Worker-Owned Plywood Cooperative," by C.
David Gartrell and Bernard E. Paille, Social
Psychology Quarterly, June 1997 Abstracts.
(electronic resource available at http://www.stanford.edu/group/spq/jun97abs.html )
When workers decide: workplace democracy takes
root in North America, edited by Len Krimerman
and Frank Lindenfeld, 1992, New Society Publishers,
Philadelphia, PA. (HD5660.U5 W53, Moffitt)
Workplace Democracy, A guide to workplace
ownership, participation and self-management experiments
in the United States and Europe, by Daniel
Zwerdling, 1988, Harper and Row. (HD5650.Z89,
IIRL)
Workplace Democracy and Social Change,
edited by Frank Lindenfeld and Joyce Rothschild-Whitt,
1982, Porter Sargent Publishers. (HD5660.U5W68,
IIRL)
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Videos
"Democracy in the Workplace: Three Worker
Owned Businesses in Action," by Off-Center
Video, 1300 Shattuck Avenue, Suite A, Berkeley,
California, 94709, (510) 486-8010. http://www.offcentervideo.com/demowork.htm
"Honey, We Bought the Company," by
The Working Group, [ND]. Narrated by Will Durst,
this video profiles five worker-owned businesses
including a cab company, a home health care worker
coop, and the worker buyout of an aluminum processing
plant. (IIRL, not yet cataloged)
Organizations
Cooperative Home Care Associates
http://www.nedlc.org/nnsp/practitioners/chca.html
349 E. 149th St., 5th floor, Bronx, NY 10451, (718)
993-7104.
A worker-owned home health care agency employing
more than 550 African-American and Latina women,
three-quarters of whom had previously been dependent
on public assistance.
GEO Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter (Ecological Democracy Institute of North America)
http://www.geonewsletter.org
"Dedicated to making a better world through worker cooperatives, sustainable community enterprises, and grassroots economic organizing."
ICA Group
http://www.ica-group.org
1 Harvard St. suite 200, Brookline, MA 02445, (617)
232-8765.
The ICA Group is a national not-for-profit organization
that seeks to create and save jobs through the development
and strengthening of employee-owned and community-based
businesses.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
http://www.ilsr.org/
2425 18th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009, (202) 232-4108.
Providing technical assistance and information on environmentally-sound economic development strategies since 1974.
Mondragon Cooperative Corporation
www.mondragon.mcc.es
The website for one of the world’s largest and most successful worker cooperative networks in the Basque Region.
National Center for Employee Ownership
http://www.nceo.org
1736 Franklin St., 8th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, (510) 208-1300.
A private non-profit membership and research organization
with information on employee stock ownership plans
(ESOPs).
National Cooperative Business Association/Cooperative Development Foundation
http://www.ncba.org/
National Cooperative Business Association/Cooperative Development Foundation serves a range of Cooperatives, including worker co-ops.
The Network of Bay Area Worker Collectives (NoBAWC)
http://www.nobawc.org/
The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives or NoBAWC (pronounced "no boss") is a grassroots organization of democratic workplaces dedicated to building workplace democracy in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
University of Wisconsin Center for
Cooperatives(UWCC)
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/
Established in 1962, The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) organizes various extension/outreach programs directed at all aspects of cooperative business principles, organizing cooperatives, cooperative financing, cooperative structure, cooperative management, leadership and governance, and related topics for both agricultural and consumer cooperatives.
New View Productions
http://www.ced.ns.ca/
282 George Street, Sydney, NS, B1P 1J6, (902)
567-0000.
"Providing unique services and resources
for community activists and academics interested
in the field of community economic development.
As the new global corporate system expands, the
critical role of community business corporations
and co-operatives will increase as a countervailing
force."
Working for America Institute
http://www.workingforamerica.org/
815 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006, (800)
842-4734 or (202) 466-8010.
"American unions are building…partnerships
in communities all around the country. The AFL-CIO
has created the Working for America Institute
to support these union strategies for building
good jobs and strong communities."
The Worker-Ownership Institute
http://www.workerownership.org/
A forum in which management and labor from employee-owned
companies, and ESOPs, come together to discuss
their triumphs and failures, and to learn from
each other. WOI is jointly sponsored by the United
Steelworkers of America (USWA) and the management
of member companies that are partly or wholly
employee-owned and employ members of the AFL-CIO-CLC
or other unions.
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