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Dear editors,
I appreciate very much the articles you post on your website as they fall within my area of study and interest.
I am a PhD student in Labour Studies in the University of Milan. May I be part of your regular mailing list (if you have) that would announce new articles of your website?
Many thanks.
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Melisa
Editors:
Thank you for posting John’s through, well-written essay on the subordination of capital in the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain. He touches on an important point for cooperative owners in the United States – what he describes as the silo effect. We in the United States grow up being taught, and internalizing, the primacy of capital. When our cooperatives run short on capital, we catch colds. Capital is an end in itself. John’s account reminds each of us just how valuable the subordination of capital to labor in the Mondragon cooperatives is in those enormously successful businesses, and how valuable the Basques’ long practice using capital as a means can teach us how get over our frequently counterproductive use of capital.
Thank you. – Frank T. Adams