http://www.geonewsletter.org/taxonomy/term/165 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.geonewsletter.org/node/144 <div align="left"> </div><p align="left"><em>By Robin Hahnel</em></p><div align="left"> </div><p align="left">Worker-owned cooperatives are wonderful alternatives to privately owned, capitalist firms. Workers can decide what they want to produce and how they want to produce it instead of having all that decided by their employers. In other words, workers can take control of their laboring capacities and use them as they see fit. Moreover, whatever benefits come from their efforts belong to them, not to an absentee owner who did none of the work.</p><p><a href="http://www.geonewsletter.org/node/144">read more</a></p> http://www.geonewsletter.org/node/144#comment Networking &amp; Collaboration participatory economics Solidarity Economy Organizing Trade &amp; Exchange Worker Cooperatives Workplace Democracy Articles Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:14:23 -0500 Ethan 144 at http://www.geonewsletter.org