Making Mondragon The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex Second Edition by William Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte ISBN 0801471737 9780801471735

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ISBN 10: 0801471737 

ISBN 13: 9780801471735

Author: William Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte

Since its founding in 1956 in Spain’s Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to education. In its industrial sector Mondragón has had a rich experience over many years in manufacturing products as varied as furniture, kitchen equipment, machine tools, and electronic components and in printing, shipbuilding, and metal smelting.Making Mondragón is a groundbreaking look at the history of worker ownership in the Spanish cooperative. First published in 1988, it remains the best source for those looking to glean a rich body of ideas for potential adaptation and implementation elsewhere from Mondragón’s long and varied experience. This second edition, published in 1991, takes into account the major structural and strategic changes that were being implemented in 1990 to allow the enterprise to compete successfully in the European common market.Mondragón has created social inventions and developed social structures and social processes that have enabled it to overcome some of the major obstacles faced by other worker cooperatives in the past. William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte describe the creation and evolution of the Mondragón cooperatives, how they have changed through decades of experience, and how they have struggled to maintain a balance between their social commitments and economic realities. The lessons of Mondragón apply most clearly to worker cooperatives and other employee-owned firms, but also extend to regional development and stimulating and supporting entrepreneurship, whatever the form of ownership. 

Table of contents:

Part One. Mondragόn in Context
1. The Importance of Mondragόn
2. The Basques
Part Two. Building the Cooperative Complex
3. The Foundation
4. The First Worker Cooperatives
5. Supporting Organizations and Diversification
6. Cooperative Groups
7. Applied Industrial Research
8. The Central Role of the Cooperative Bank
Part Three. Managing Change
9. Coping with Internal Conflict
10. Rethinking the Systems of Participation
11. Changing the Organization of Work
Part Four. Coping with the Worldwide Recession
12. Sacrificing for Collective Survival
13. Providing for Unemployment Compensation and Support
14. From ULARCO to FAGOR
15. Expanding Service and Agribusiness Cooperatives
16. The Changing Role of the Caja Laboral Popular
Part Five. Restructuring for the 1990s and Beyond
17. Strategic Organizational Restructuring
18. Facing the Social Challenges of Intensified Competition
Part Six. Lessons from Mondragόn
19. Uriderstanding Mondragόn’s Founder
20. Ethnic and Organizational Cultures
21. Implications of the Mondragόn Experience

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