Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society

This book looks like it might be interesting, if someone reviewed it perhaps that could be published as a article on the www.workers.coop WordPress site? It is due to be published on October 29th, 2024:

Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society

An Alternative Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, and the Transition Towards It

by Geert Reuten

What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it. In Reuten’s convincing design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns the means of production. The legal structure of worker cooperatives is such that workers have full rights to the fruits of the cooperative without owning it, and yet the state does not own the cooperatives either. Interestingly, worker councils in the economic and state domains vote on all economically relevant matters. In Reuten’s compelling vision, the free choice of occupation and of specific consumer goods is even larger than in capitalism.

Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society | HaymarketBooks.org

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seems to be a free pdf version available here too Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society

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Nice find, it appears to be distributed under the terms of the CC by-nc-nd 4.0 license so I’ve put a copy on the CoTech wiki.

Perhaps the author would be an interesting person to interview on a future podcast?

I had the same thought

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