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Milkerie Worker Cooperative in France: Some Evidence on Why Cooperatives Struggle to Propose an Alternative to Capitalist Enterprise

In: Anthropological Enquiries into Policy, Debt, Business, and Capitalism

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  • Ieva Snikersproge

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Milkerie1worker cooperative was created after a yearlong labor fight against a factory closure announcement. By creating the coop, Milkerie’s workers set out to prove that if workers were given more decision-making power in the economy, it would be possible to create a more inclusive economy that values worker labor and provides them wage-based livelihoods. This chapter describes the historical conditions that the cooperative emerge, shaped its business model and governance structure. If cooperatives are believed to propose an alternative to capitalist enterprises, the case of Milkerie shows how the market pressure turns activism, that is, various types of unpaid voluntary labor, into simple jobs, that is, activities codified by task description and time frame, limiting the possibility to re-imagine the economy collectively.

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  • Ieva Snikersproge, 2020. "Milkerie Worker Cooperative in France: Some Evidence on Why Cooperatives Struggle to Propose an Alternative to Capitalist Enterprise," Research in Economic Anthropology, in: Anthropological Enquiries into Policy, Debt, Business, and Capitalism, volume 40, pages 127-148, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reanzz:s0190-128120200000040009
    DOI: 10.1108/S0190-128120200000040009
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