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99th_Monkey

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5. Yes LOL.

Reply to limpyhobbler (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 06:49 PM

Mar 2013

and the articles they did do, probably 90% were "horror stories" they dug
up from the Pit, rather than fair comparisons re: employment stability, amount
of capital that STAYS in the local community to multiply over and over, rather
than being syphoned off to a distant corporate boardroom.

I did my masters thesis on this very comparison, in the timber plywood mills
in Oregon in the '80s. On every measure, worker owned coops out-performed
absentee ownership dramatically.

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The Take - A Film by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis limpyhobbler Mar 2013 #2

IMHO this is what the Labor Movement needs to get back into, and pronto!! 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #3

Thanks for the links and limpyhobbler Mar 2013 #4

Yes LOL. 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #5