Re: Mondragon: Research for ILO on Worker Cooperative Formation

[David Erdal <david@erdal.net>]

Josh
Baxi is helping to finance an employee-owned company which started as a worker buyout of a failed company. They have about 100 employees and are engineering-manufacturers.

I am also copying to Cairns Campbell, who founded the Scottish Co-operative Development Committee back in the 1970s. I think he organised over 20 rescue buyouts as worker co-ops.

David

On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 02:00 PM, Guest g5coop wrote:

> My name is Josh Olson.  I am currently serving as an intern with Mark Levin at the Cooperative Branch of the International Labor Organization.  I have been given the assignment to do research and write a short paper on the use of cooperative buyouts as a mechanism for job retention for workers in investor-owned or privately held companies. 
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> I am looking for case studies of worker cooperatives that have been created as the result of worker purchases of failing non-cooperative enterprises.  For the purposes of my paper, I am interested both in both sucessful and unsucessful attempts at such conversions. ( I realize that there will be more information regarding successful cooperatives of this nature, but information on both successes and failures will be beneficial to my research.)  
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> Any information, regarding studies that have been published on this subject, details regarding particular cases of such conversions, or even the existence of such cases (hopefully accompanied by some contact information) would be most useful.
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> Many thanks, in advance.
>  
> Sincerely,
> -Josh Olson
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