- Introduction
- Motivation
- Health and Safety
- Greater competitiveness
- More Innovative
- Long Term Commitment of Employees to the Firm
- Less Behavioral and Mental Health Problems
- Member Satisfaction
- Spontaneous Cooperation
- Need less supervision and management
- Workers better informed about the state of their whole company
- Organization
- Ultimate authority is often the worker's assembly.
- Sometimes delegate authority in a free-association.
- Hierarchies still exist, but power flows bottom-up rather than top-down.
- Profit Sharing
- Community Property
- Example of a Specific Organizational Model: Plywood Cooperatives
- Implementation
- Cooperatives in a Socialist System
- Cooperatives in a Capitalist System
- Conclusion
- Bibliography