<a href="http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/07/17/mondragon-permaculture-cooperative/">http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/07/17/mondragon-permaculture-cooperative/</a><br>
<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Similarly, several of the industrial Mondragon cooperatives have in recent years faced increased pressure from, for example, auto-part buyers (i.e. car manufacturers) to open manufacturing plants in Third World countries, or to lose important contracts. � We talked at length with Fred about Mondragon�s globalisation strategy - it now has 70 odd manufacturing plants overseas - none of which are as yet cooperatives. �This �multi-localisation� process is covered in<span class="Apple-converted-space">�</span><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jmluzarraga/mondragon-multilocalisation-strategy-jm-luzarraga-phd-defense-4th-june-2008-presentation" style="color: rgb(107, 161, 42);">JM Luzarraga�s PhD defense presentation</a>.� Briefly, the cooperatives are embedded in the global capitalist system, with the result that appliance-making companies like Fagor have found it impossible to compete with companies who are outsourcing. �This is not to say that they haven�t tried to come up with ways to cooperatise their outsourced plants, but there are many obstacles, not the least of which is that, in some countries, it�s not merely infeasible to create a cooperative, it�s illegal. �� </span></span><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
thanks for the perspective!<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Nicholas Roberts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:niccolo.roberts@gmail.com" target="_blank">niccolo.roberts@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">hi michel<br><br>havent read that piece, but I would guess that yes, strike action against mondragon would be justified in these globalized factories they own<br>
<br>when we where in arrasate it was discussed - michel lezamiz and fred freundlich - there was a cooperatization process underway in these overseas acquisitions, and research was being done on the problems of mondragon as a globalized neoliberal corporation... the cooperatization process had problems even before the Great Recession, and I think it basically stopped or went in reverse since... <br>
<br>we where told many of the worker-owners "didnt join mondragon so they could become capitalists" and so on... there is a PhD on the phenomena<br><font color="#888888"><br>-N</font><div><div></div><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com" target="_blank">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2011/01/mondragon-cooperative-built-on.html" target="_blank">http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2011/01/mondragon-cooperative-built-on.html</a><br><br>Nicholas, Kevin, or others, a commentary for publication in the p2p blog would be appreciated,<br>
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