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

[RaceM <race@netspace.net.au>]

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>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.

Dear Robert Oakeshott

Thanks for your message. I'm glad that my book 'Jobs of Our Own: 
Building a Stakeholder Society' has reached you, and that you are 
finding things in it that interest you. An earlier working title was 
'The Distributrists: Chesterton, Belloc and the Antigonish and 
Mondragon Experiences', but it was felt to be too esoteric. Like you, 
I will be hoping to find a US publisher during visits to the US in 
June and October, not least because that seems to be the only way to 
secure a US Amazon.com listing. Meanwhile, copies of the Australian 
edition are available in the US for $US19.95 plus $US4 post and 
packing from the American Chesterton Society,4117 Pebblebrook Cir., 
Minneapolis, MN 55437, or from the Australian publishers, Pluto 
Press, Locked Bag 199 Annandale, NSW, 2038, Australia, for $A32.95 
plus overseas post and packing $A12. There is also a European edition 
from Comerford & Miller, 36 Grosvenor Road, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 
9PY, United Kingdom. Thanks again for your kind words, and I'll look 
forward to hearing further from you once you are back in the UK. Best 
wishes, Race Mathews
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Dr Race Mathews,
Senior Research Fellow,
Government and Governance Unit,
Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University.

Postal Address:
123 Alexandra Avenue,
South Yarra, Vic, 3141,
Australia.

Phone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104.