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The United States of America: a Co-operative Model for Worker Management

In: The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms

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  • Katrina V. Berman

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This chapter examines in detail the experience of US plywood manufacturing co-operatives who form one of the groups identified by Derek Jones in the previous chapter. This group is worthy of special consideration since its history is the best documented of all groups of US co-operatives and the institutional arrangements (e.g. transferable share ownership, and non-member employment) differ significantly from cases examined elsewhere in this book. After an examination of the institutional arrangements and the size and nature of this group of firms, and a discussion of the relevant theoretical model, this chapter focuses on three problems encountered by these producer co-operatives, non-member employment, capital shortage, and share transfer problems, and suggests some relevant policy implications.

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  • Katrina V. Berman, 1982. "The United States of America: a Co-operative Model for Worker Management," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank H. Stephen (ed.), The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms, chapter 4, pages 74-98, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05721-4_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05721-4_4
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    1. Jon Wisman, 1987. "An economic response to the threat of nuclear war," Forum for Social Economics, Springer;The Association for Social Economics, vol. 17(1), pages 43-58, September.

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