The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town (Anthropology of Work)

by Sharryn Kasmir

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6 ratings, 3.33 average rating, 2 reviews (more data...)

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July 1996 by State University of New York Press

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Paperback, 260 pages

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0791430049 (isbn13: 9780791430040)

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Tom rated it:

09/21/08

This is an excellent book. A British sociologist with radical political symphathies studies the Mondragon cooperatives and also the labor unions in the Mondragon area of Spain. She provides very solid evidence that the class I call the coordinator class -- managers and high-end professionals like engineers and financial analysts -- are very much in control of the Mondragon coops, not the workers. In other words, there is a class division within the coops.

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11/02/07

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I found her analysis flawed and inconsistent. Further, since its publication, so much has changed as to make a lot of her critique irrelevant. However, it is one of the few Mondragon books that does not offer a glowing tribute. For that reason, it is worth the effort to read this ethnography.--John McNamara

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Mackel marked it as to-read

10/12/08

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