Worker Coops in Brazil: The Good and the Not So Hot
What are the differences between cooperatives in the United States and coops in other countries? This article by Carl Ratner argues that worker coops in Brazil are far more political and class based than in the US. There is also a critical discussion of how the contradictions of capitalism corrupt coops into two-tiered wage system. This is a sympathetic yet critical look at worker coops.
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Bruce
Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his four books: From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World Co-Authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present and Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia WA.