The October 2018 issue of Stir, The Magazine for the New Economy, includes this article on Mondragon ideas in practice in the UK by Julian Manley. Order your copy if the Autumn 2018 issue “Co-operating out of Crisis.” You can also read a copy of the article here. — “The success of the Mondragón co-operatives in the Gipuzkoa region of the Basque Country remains an…
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Humanity at Work – MONDRAGON, a social innovation ecosystem case study | Young Foundation
From The Young Foundation: MONDRAGON is a large global business owned by its workers delivering economic and social equality by combining success in the marketplace with social benefit. We found that MONDRAGON, with annual revenues of over €12 billion (equivalent to those of Kellogg’s and Visa), doesn’t just have social values as a nice-to-have, like many corporate social responsibility or…
Successful entrepreneurship requires much determination | Gaztenpresa Blog
Originally published in Spain, in the Gaztenpresa blog, we had it translated into English: Yes. You can. If you really want it you can convert yourself into an entrepreneur. An expert is telling you this. Oscar Muguerza, the Director of Trade of LABORAL Kutxa Enterprises and Gaztenpresa’s coach, participated in the “Innova Bilbao 2016,” an event that set the standard for…
How Co-ops Build Stronger Communities, a New Economy and a Better World | Truthout
Written by the team at the TESA Collective: Cooperatives are businesses and organizations democratically owned and managed by the people they serve. They come in many shapes and sizes: from a handful of people to thousands upon thousands of members. Some are owned and run by workers, others are owned and governed by consumers, still others are for producers (like…
Worker Cooperatives in a Globalizing World | Great Transition Initiative
Mondragon’s former president Josu Ugarte was recently interviewed for the Great Transition Initiative. We think this is one of the most relevant summaries of Mondragon available. We also appreciate the challenge and potential summed up in the last exchange: What is the future of large, global cooperatives? Is the Mondragon story unique or replicable? The Basque roots of Mondragon remain…
Pope Francis: Speech at World Meeting of Popular Movements
Pope Francis spoke on July9, 2015 at the World Meeting of Popular Movements, taking place in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The inspiring speech included the following: “The first task is to put the economy at the service of peoples. Human beings and nature must not be at the service of money. Let us say NO to an economy of exclusion and inequality,…
Pope Francis and the Just Third Way | Homiletic & Pastoral Review
From the Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Pope Francis faces many challenges in his efforts to modernize the application of Catholic social doctrine to today’s problems, particularly the growing global wealth, income, and power gap. His greatest challenge, however, may be overcoming a prevailing ignorance or misunderstanding of the basic moral principles that make lasting, systemic solutions possible. As taught in…
The challenge for Mondragon | Sage Journals
Competitiveness today requires being able to operate at a global scale. The financial crisis invigorated this requirement, posing new challenges to the economic viability of conventional companies and demanding alternative organizational forms of production. Although a wealth of research has focused on capitalist companies, little attention has been paid to the way these challenges affected worker cooperatives. Drawing from a…
White Collar Wage Theft Is Trending: Companies Using Jail And Illegal Arrangements To Prevent Employees From Leaving | Forbes.com
This Forbes.com article ended by citing the work our own Carmen Huertas-Noble and others are doing in New York City to develop worker cooperative businesses: The best answer to our problem is unrelated to the law. The law changes at a glacial pace and is easily perverted. New York City recently funded $1.2 million to support worker cooperatives. Worker cooperatives are…
How Much Outside Help Do Worker Co-ops Need to Get to Scale? | Rooflines
Article by Steve Dubb on Mondragon, the growing worker coop movement in the U.S. and what’s needed to bring worker cooperatives to scale: “Negotiating the balance between providing outside support and empowering worker-owners to be lead agents in their own success also requires clear communication. ‘The relationships between the developer, the co-op, and any other local partners must be carefully…
