- Paperback: 270 pages
- Publisher: State University of New York Press (1 July 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0791430049
- ISBN-13: 978-0791430040
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,206,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
very useful study
30 Sep 2008
Format:Paperback
The author is a sociologist who spent quite a bit of time in the '80s and '90s in Mondragon. The important thing about this book is that it showss that a formal system of "economic democracy" does not ensure that workers will have effective control over the places where they work. In the Mondragon cooperatives there is an internal class division. The managers and engineers are really in control. Worker "social committees" were not given time off from work to do their job properly, to raise issues of concern to workers. And workers were prohibited by the rules of the coops to bring in outside consultants, because that would enable them to challenge management's plans. Effective worker management control would have to go beyond just a general meeting and "one-person, one-vote" democracy to actually training workers to know the ropes and give people paid time to learn and participate effecttively. the "myth of Mondragon" is the myth that workers are really in control of the coops. At the same time, this is not to say that workers have not benefited from the coops. And capitalist employers in the Basque country have also introduced worker participation schemes to get the same increases in productivity the Mondragon coops get from their profit sharing and nonimal (but minimal) avenues for worker input.
24 of 31 people found the following review helpful
A Twisted View of Reality
14 Feb 2006
Format:Paperback
There is no myth in Cooperative Mondragon if you have lived in Mondragon in 1960's, if you grow thru an artificially induced process of 40% unemployement, and sharing day to strugle of been lucky to get minimum wage and abuses of dictatorship under industrialism of General Franco.
The priests who funded the Cooperative (today with 60,000 employee owners) althought no perfect found a better solution.
Mondragon is perfect in front of the Enrons, MCIs, not a single person in the cooperative is yet to lose a pension or health coverage, or security of live, that beats 99% what Kasmir tries to compare Mondragon against other forms of ownership.
The priests who funded the Cooperative (today with 60,000 employee owners) althought no perfect found a better solution.
Mondragon is perfect in front of the Enrons, MCIs, not a single person in the cooperative is yet to lose a pension or health coverage, or security of live, that beats 99% what Kasmir tries to compare Mondragon against other forms of ownership.
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A good counter-balance
16 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
I recently read Roy Morrison's "We Build the Road As We Travel" to gain a better understanding of cooperatives in general and the Mondragon cooperative system in particular. After reading Morrison's book I wanted to know more about Mondragon and so I picked up Kasmir's book.
After reading "The Myth of Mondragon" I have a very different idea of Basque Spain throughout the Franco years and the developmental years of the Mondragon cooperative system. While Morrison's book mentions the complexity of the region and the cooperative system itself Kasmir actually digs into both and produces quality thought-provoking information helping the reader to find a broader conclusion base.
While it is true that the cooperatives have provided job stability and health care - things that all folks ought to be guaranteed - Kasmir also points out that globalization has exacerbated class issues within the cooperatives as well as created an atmosphere in the cooperatives that is less distinct from the local private firms than it maybe once was.
After reading "The Myth of Mondragon" I have a very different idea of Basque Spain throughout the Franco years and the developmental years of the Mondragon cooperative system. While Morrison's book mentions the complexity of the region and the cooperative system itself Kasmir actually digs into both and produces quality thought-provoking information helping the reader to find a broader conclusion base.
While it is true that the cooperatives have provided job stability and health care - things that all folks ought to be guaranteed - Kasmir also points out that globalization has exacerbated class issues within the cooperatives as well as created an atmosphere in the cooperatives that is less distinct from the local private firms than it maybe once was.
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