Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Part One. Mondragόn in Context
6. 1. The Importance of Mondragόn 3
7. 2. The Basques 9
8. Part Two. Building the Cooperative Complex
9. 3. The Foundation 25
10. 4. The First Worker Cooperatives 32
11. 5. Supporting Organizations and Diversification 49
12. 6. Cooperative Groups 58
13. 7. Applied Industrial Research 63
14. 8. The Central Role of the Cooperative Bank 68
15. Part Three. Managing Change
16. 9. Coping with Internal Conflict 91
17. 10. Rethinking the Systems of Participation 103
18. 11. Changing the Organization of Work 113
19. Part Four. Coping with the Worldwide Recession
20. 12. Sacrificing for Collective Survival 131
21. 13. Providing for Unemployment Compensation and Support 150
22. 14. From ULARCO to FAGOR 157
23. 15. Expanding Service and Agribusiness Cooperatives 169
24. 16. The Changing Role of the Caja Laboral Popular 177
25. Part Five. Restructuring for the 1990s and Beyond
26. 17. Strategic Organizational Restructuring 195
27. 18. Facing the Social Challenges of Intensified Competition 212
28. Part Six. Lessons from Mondragόn
29. 19. Uriderstanding Mondragόn’s Founder 241
30. 20. Ethnic and Organizational Cultures 270
31. 21. Implications of the Mondragόn Experience 282
32. Appendix. Evolution of Our Research on Mondragόn 301
33. Bibliography 315
34. Index 325
35. About the Authors 335