Re: Mondragon: Re: MDRGN: Re: MDRGN Inaugural Message

[robert oakeshott <robert.oakeshott@virgin.net>]

on 24/4/02 11:49 pm, RaceM at race@netspace.net.au wrote:

>> Greetings everyone re MCC:
>> 
>> I am delighted to see the interest in a network.  I am frightfully
>> overcome with work right now, but am looking for a clearing this
>> summer to respond meaningfully to the network and its organization.
>> 
>> In the meantime, I am attaching an essay I just published in the
>> High Plains Applied Anthropology journal in a special issue for
>> which I served as Issue Editor, on the topic of the geography of
>> power, which has to do with the relationship among anthro, power,
>> space, and place.
>> 
>> I look forward to your comments immensely.
>> 
>> MAH
>> Univ of San Francisco
>> 
>> PS:  I am conducting a participatory research project with a
>> collective in Berkeley which has just launched two bakeries, in the
>> spirit of MCC, named, Arizmendi!!
>> 
>> Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:newHildebrand.rtf (RTF /MSWD) (000391C5)
> 
> Dear Mary Abascal-Hildebrand
> 
> Thanks for your message and welcome to the prospective International
> Mondragon Studies Association. I hope it will be OK for your journal
> article to be added to the Mondragon collection in the COG library,
> to which it is hoped  that, ultimately, everything that gets written
> about Mondragon will find its way, and be able to be accessed on a
> 'one-stop-shop' basis. Meanwhile, I guess every body here will be
> looking forward to more news about the Arizmendi bakeries. Best
> wishes, Race Mathews.
dear race mathews, this is no more than a brief acknowledgement and a huge -
but not extended - thank you for sending me a copy of your JOBS OF OUR OWN.
It arrived yesterday and I have just put it down on reaching the end of
chapter 5. Tiresomely I have to fly to America tomorrow and will not be able
to start reading again until I am on the plane. At this stage I will say no
more than "many congratulations". But I will hope to write to you properly
once I am back from America and have finsihed it. That will be in not more
than two weeks time. One reason for going to America is to meet a publisher
about a possible US edition of JOBS and FAIRNESS. Was it you who asked me
whether its Mondragon chapter could somehow be made available to the
"virtual library" of what I think is the Capital Ownership Group. I don't
think I can offer even a conditional answer to that until my talks with the
possible American publisher have taken place. But I will come back to the
issue once I'm back in London and in touch again. With renewed
congratulations, renewed thanks and very best wishes from Robert Oakeshott.