<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Orsan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:59 AM<br>Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Commons and cooperatives<br>To: <a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a><br><br><br><div dir="auto"><div>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic'">Greig de Peuter and Nick Dyer-Witheford, “Commons and Cooperatives,” </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic';font-style:italic">Affinities: A Journal of
Radical Theory, Culture, and Action</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic'">, Volume 4, Number 1, Summer 2010, pp. 30-56. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic'">In the last decade, </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic';font-style:italic">the commons </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic'">has become a prevalent theme
in discussions about collective but decentralized control over
resources. This paper is a preliminary exploration of the potential
linkages between commons and cooperatives through a discussion
of the worker cooperative as one example of a </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic';font-style:italic">labour commons</span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic'">.
We view the worker coop as a response at once antagonistic and
accommodative to capitalism. This perspective is amplified through
a consideration of five aspects of an ideal-type worker
cooperativism: associated labour, workplace democracy, surplus
distribution, cooperation among cooperatives, and, controversially,
links between worker cooperatives and socialist states. We
conclude by suggesting that the radical potential of worker
cooperatives be extended, theoretically and practically, by
elaborating connections with other commons struggles in a process
we term the </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic';font-style:italic">circulation of the common</span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'CenturyGothic'">. </span></p>
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<br></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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