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The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town (Anthropology of Work) (SUNY series in the Anthropology of Work) Paperback – Illustrated, July 1, 1996

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Shows how the creation of an idealized image of the Mondragon cooperatives is part of a new global ideology that promotes cooperative labor-management relations in order to discredit labor unions and working-class organizations.

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270 pages
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English
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State University of New York Press
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July 1, 1996
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5.53 x 0.61 x 8.94 inches
ISBN-10

0791430049
ISBN-13

978-0791430040
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“The topic―class consciousness, struggle, and cooperativism―is significant for several reasons. First, Mondragón cooperatives have been the object of much attention by social scientists, but previous work has viewed them from managers’, not workers’ perspectives. By using the perspective of workers, Kasmir not only shows that there is conflict between managers and workers in the cooperatives, but that workers in cooperatives and in private factories have not always acted together. This perspective also enables her to draw out very effectively the links between managers, the ideology of cooperativism, and Basque nationalist politics.

"Second, the analysis of cooperatives and class in Mondragon has important broader implications about contemporary class patterns. By looking at the ideology of cooperativism in its larger political and social context at different times, Kasmir raises important questions for class analysis elsewhere." -- Frances Rothstein, Towson State University

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This is the first critical account of the internationally renowned Mondragon cooperatives of the Basque region of Spain. The Mondragon cooperatives are seen as the leading alternative model to standard industrial organization; they are considered to be the most successful example of democratic decision making and worker ownership.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ State University of New York Press; Illustrated edition (July 1, 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0791430049
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0791430040
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.53 x 0.61 x 8.94 inches

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Jeremiah Saiz

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disidente

very useful study

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2008

The author is a sociologist who spent quite a bit of time in the '80s and '90s in Mondragon. The important thing about this book is that it showss that a formal system of "economic democracy" does not ensure that workers will have effective control over the places where they work. In the Mondragon cooperatives there is an internal class division. The managers and engineers are really in control. Worker "social committees" were not given time off from work to do their job properly, to raise issues of concern to workers. And workers were prohibited by the rules of the coops to bring in outside consultants, because that would enable them to challenge management's plans. Effective worker management control would have to go beyond just a general meeting and "one-person, one-vote" democracy to actually training workers to know the ropes and give people paid time to learn and participate effecttively. the "myth of Mondragon" is the myth that workers are really in control of the coops. At the same time, this is not to say that workers have not benefited from the coops. And capitalist employers in the Basque country have also introduced worker participation schemes to get the same increases in productivity the Mondragon coops get from their profit sharing and nonimal (but minimal) avenues for worker input.

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Thomas Fackler

A good counter-balance

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2006

I recently read Roy Morrison's "We Build the Road As We Travel" to gain a better understanding of cooperatives in general and the Mondragon cooperative system in particular. After reading Morrison's book I wanted to know more about Mondragon and so I picked up Kasmir's book.

After reading "The Myth of Mondragon" I have a very different idea of Basque Spain throughout the Franco years and the developmental years of the Mondragon cooperative system. While Morrison's book mentions the complexity of the region and the cooperative system itself Kasmir actually digs into both and produces quality thought-provoking information helping the reader to find a broader conclusion base.

While it is true that the cooperatives have provided job stability and health care - things that all folks ought to be guaranteed - Kasmir also points out that globalization has exacerbated class issues within the cooperatives as well as created an atmosphere in the cooperatives that is less distinct from the local private firms than it maybe once was.

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Pedro Lazaga

New insights into the Mondragon cooperatives

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2000

The book contains many new insights into the internal working of the Mondragon cooperatives and their economic, social and political problems. Ms Kasmir's meticulous field-work and her studies of different historical archives of the Mondragon community offer a realistic picture about the Mondragon cooperatives unique experience

13 people found this helpful

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Thought provoking and interesting

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2011

I bought this book having only recently become more interested in worker co-ops as one route to advancing towards socialism - without any illusion that it was possible to get there by this route alone or create little 'islands' of socialism. What I found in this book was a quite subtle and nuanced look at the most famous workers cooperative, which perhaps erred on the critical side but never failed to educate. It raised lots of issues I hadn't considered and didn't come out with any trite answers. For anyone interested in co-ops, workers control or left wing politics this is definitely an interesting read and provides ample food for thought and further debate.

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F. WILSON

A Twisted View of Reality

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2006

There is no myth in Cooperative Mondragon if you have lived in Mondragon in 1960's, if you grow thru an artificially induced process of 40% unemployement, and sharing day to strugle of been lucky to get minimum wage and abuses of dictatorship under industrialism of General Franco.

The priests who funded the Cooperative (today with 60,000 employee owners) althought no perfect found a better solution.

Mondragon is perfect in front of the Enrons, MCIs, not a single person in the cooperative is yet to lose a pension or health coverage, or security of live, that beats 99% what Kasmir tries to compare Mondragon against other forms of ownership.

43 people found this helpful

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mojo

This Book Sucks

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2016

Ridiculous propaganda.

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