Worker co-operatives: A dream with jagged edges?
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
- Vol. 1 (3) , 33-41
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02690948608725858
Abstract
The authors of this paper argue that worker co-ops need to be valued as an improvement in the quality of working life, yet all too often they and the agencies which support them are caught up in a “numbers game” of trying to maximise the number of jobs created in order to justify funding. It is important not to under-estimate the problem of under-capitalisation in co-ops, the stresses of establishing a new business for those with no management experience, and the cost and time needed for training. Co-ops are more an experiment in a new labour process than an easy cure for a dying economy.Keywords
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