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EDIS, 2003 The purpose of the EPA Worker Protection Standard is to provide federal safety standards for users, employers, workers, and handlers of agricultural pesticides. This is EDIS document FE422, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics,
Leo C. Polopolus +3 more
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Future Internet, 2017 There is no doubt that the rapid development in robotics technology has dramatically changed the interaction model between the Industrial Robot (IR) and the worker.
Ahmed R. Sadik, Bodo Urban
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Rescuing firms in a co-operative way: worker buyouts in Italy
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2022 We have carried out an empirical study of WBOs in Italy since 1985, describing the role of two key institutions - the legal framework and the cooperative associations. WBO operations were officially recognized in 1985 by the Italian policy-maker.
Andrea Bernardi +4 more
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Boletín de la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Cooperativo, 2019 The lack of a clear and comprehensive regulatory framework for worker cooperatives is one of the main causes for their scarcity in the USA, as it causes ignorance and uncertainty even though cooperatives are one of several forms of doing business ...
Sofía Arana Landín
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A feasibility study of the community health worker model for garden-based food systems programming
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023 Underserved communities, including those of Black, Indigenous, and people of color, experience unequal access to food systems resources and programming.
Maria DeNunzio +4 more
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No evidence for a relationship between breed cooperativeness and inequity aversion in dogs.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Inequity aversion, the resistance to inequitable outcomes, has been demonstrated in a wide variety of animal species. Inequity aversion was hypothesised to have co-evolved with cooperation but only limited evidence supports this.
Jim McGetrick +3 more
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Participation and Organizational Commitment in the Mondragon Group
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The scientific literature has shown Mondragon Corporation (MC), with 65 years of history, as a clear example that cooperativism can be highly competitive in the capitalist market while being highly egalitarian and democratic.
Alfonso Rodríguez-Oramas +3 more
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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on the long-term ...
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Innovative models of cooperative of independent workers for decent work in Europe
Revista Nacional de Administración, 2022 The socio-economic context is constantly challenging traditional employment relationships while new forms of employment are emerging, with acute risk of precarity for workers.
Francesca Martinelli +3 more
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A Tale of Two Co-ops in Two Cities
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020 Conceived in support of the Louisville Association of Cooperative Economics (LACE), this paper presents case studies of two different food cooperatives serving communities of color.
Leah Halliday, Michèle Foster
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