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Everybody wants to make money from them: a qualitative study on labor exploitation and labor trafficking of farmworkers in Michigan. [PDF]

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Iglesias-Rios L, Handal AJ.
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Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet Effect

Journal of Labor Economics, 2000
Workers paid by the piece should be happy to introduce new techniques that increase output, but firms always seem to reduce the piece rate when workers start earning too much money. Workers respond by restricting output and keeping good new ideas to themselves. We show that this outcome is inevitable in a competitive environment.
Carmichael, H Lorne, MacLeod, W Bentley
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Worker Cooperatives

2022
This introductory chapter clarifies the types, potentials, and limitations of worker ownership and particularly the worker cooperative. It also raises the key themes of the rest of the book: worker control and workplace inequality, the relationship between organizational structure and organizational inequality, and why two initially similar ...
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Worker Directors and Worker Ownership/Cooperatives

2010
Abstract Employee participation in organizational decision making at the strategic management level is manifested in two main ways: first, employee representatives sitting alongside shareholder representatives on the boards of public companies and state-owned enterprises; and second, producer cooperatives in which the workers own the ...
Raymond Markey, Nicola Balnave, Greg Patmore   +2 more
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The Objectives of Worker Cooperatives

Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993
Just as profit maximization has served as the reference case for understanding the behavior of conventional firms, so in the literature on worker-owned firms has the standard hypothesis been one of maximizing income per member. We estimate the parameters of a general objective function for worker cooperatives using observations collected by the authors
Ben Craig, John Pencavel
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Participation in Worker Cooperatives

2016
This chapter discusses different models of worker cooperatives ranging from those that are predominantly economic associations, or a form of employee ownership, to those that are more collectivist and emphasize workplace democracy, community commitment, and cooperative ideals.
Marcelo Vieta, Jack Quarter, Roger Spear, Alexandra Moskovskaya   +3 more
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[Tuberculosis in cooperative workers].

Problemy tuberkuleza, 1994
Out of 67 cooperators with tuberculosis treated at the city antituberculosis dispensary the advanced disease was found in 68.5% of the cases. Of them 67.7% discharged tubercle bacilli, 38.4% had multiple caverns. Among the reasons for a severe specific process in the lungs are intensive labour, late working hours, lack of social and health protection.
V G, Kononenko, T I, Derbikova
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The Culture of Cooperation in Three Japanese Worker Cooperatives

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2003
The critical problem in the relations of production for worker-owned and managed enterprises is not the exploitation of labor by capital, but processes homologous to free-riding on the collective provision of public goods. Market, constitutional and collegiality barriers fail to attenuate opportunism in such work relations because paradoxes in the ...
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