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Worker Cooperatives as Based on First Principles

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  • David Ellerman

    (University of California at Riverside)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to go back to the first principles of democracy and private property, and to show that they are violated by the conventional firms based on the employment relations and are satisfied by the legal form of a worker cooperative. The conventional bundle of rights in a corporation is analysed and then shown how it is changed and reparsed in a worker cooperative according to those first principles.

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  • David Ellerman, 2016. "Worker Cooperatives as Based on First Principles," Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises, vol. 5(1), pages 20-32.
    • Handle: RePEc:trn:csnjrn:v:5:i:1:p:20-32
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    Cited by:

    1. Tortia, Ermanno C., 2021. "Employment protection regimes and dismissal of members in worker cooperatives," MPRA Paper 109214, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Tortia, Ermanno Celeste, 2019. "Employment protection regimes in worker co-operatives: dismissal of worker members and distributive fairness," MPRA Paper 94536, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Tortia, Ermanno C., 2024. "Dividends, labor remuneration, and capitalization in worker cooperatives. Worker shareholding," MPRA Paper 122500, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Worker cooperatives; Juridical principle of imputing responsibility; Democratic theory;
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    JEL classification:

    • P13 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Cooperative Enterprises
    • J54 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms

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