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Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society
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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 equall...
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26 October 2023

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, thereby making a convincing case. In Reuten’s 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 work, the free choice of occupation and of specific consumer goods is even larger than in capitalism.
Price: $260.00
Pages: 478
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
Publication Date:
26 October 2023
ISBN: 9789004531079
Format: Hardcover
Geert Reuten, PhD (1988) taught economics at the University of Amsterdam’s School of Economics, where he is currently a guest research associate. He has authored four academic books, edited six volumes, and published 80 academic articles (http://reuten.eu). For nine years he was a member of the Senate of the Netherlands for the Socialist Party.