Value, Cooperatives, and Class Justice

Kristjanson-Gural, David

doi:10.1080/08935696.2011.583007

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“…However, 'material success is a necessary but insufficient condition of life-sustaining value in economic geographies, since it is values … that inform social activity shape [in multiple ways] the particular forms and evaluations of 'life-sustaining' value' (Lee, 2006: 415). Furthermore, Kristjanson-Gural (2011), also when discussing the issue of distribution, reads DeMartino's ( 2003) notion of 'class justice' that consists of three over-lapping components -productive, appropriative and distributive justice. Kristjanson-Gural goes on to claim that, in order to achieve distributive justice, cooperatives have to enact regulations at three levels; at the level of the firm, the cooperative association, and the economy.…”

Section: The Mondragon Cooperative Corporationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diverse economies and alternative spaces: An overview of approaches and practices

Gritzas

Kavoulakos

2016

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Although the origins of the theoretical debate regarding political–economic alternatives are as old as Proudhon, Marx and Engels, discussion concerning alternative economic and political spaces has come to the foreground very recently. More specifically, in the field of geography the most influential approach has been that associated with work on diverse economies, developed initially by Gibson-Graham. Research in this area has increased at a significant rate, revealing a multitude of practices in what we call the hidden ‘neverland’ all over the world, while simultaneously posing a number of new and open questions. This article begins with a review of the main theoretical, methodological and epistemological assumptions underpinning the diverse economies approach. This is followed by a discussion of four concrete types of diverse/alternative spaces; those in post-socialist countries, alternative exchange networks, alternative food networks and the Mondragon cooperative corporation in Spain. The article concludes by arguing that while the debate on alternative and diverse economies may reflect a willingness on the part of the scholars to cooperate in order to build a postcapitalist future, it is also necessary to consider the possibilities and constraints operating at different scales, from individual to global, in order to consider the extent to which alternatives may be successful.

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Section: The Mondragon Cooperative Corporationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diverse economies and alternative spaces: An overview of approaches and practices

Gritzas

Kavoulakos

2016

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…10 Mechanisms of consent are crucial: the inevitable predistributions of surplus entailed by any exchange-based pricing structure (whether administrative or competitive in some form) need not be exploitative if the ''rules'' for pricing and/or price competition emerge from systematic social dialog rather than the anarchy of profit-seeking behavior*particular market outcomes may or may not be ''just,'' but they are not exploitative if the process that leads to those outcomes is collectively constituted. 11 I would put the point differently from Kristjanson-Gural (2011), although perhaps in the same spirit: a pricing structure such that ''workers in capital-intensive co-operative enterprises'' do capture revenues representing surplus labor performed by ''workers in labor-intensive co-operatives'' is not exploitative if that pricing structure is the outcome of a collective process. When the ''associated producers'' (Marx's frequent term) decide collectively on the rules of the game, the game cannot be exploitative.…”

Section: Worker Cooperatives 347mentioning

confidence: 95%