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Workers' Co-operatives and Trade Unions: The Italian Experience

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  • Jenny Thornley

    (Co-operatives Research Unit, Open University, Milton Keynes)

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The paper examines the influence of trade unions on workers' co-operatives in Italy both at a political level, and inside the co-operatives. Over the last ten years the unions have stimulated the conversion to co-operatives of many failed capitalist firms as a method of saving jobs. Rescue ventures are the main growth area among manufacturing co-operatives. They have created new problems for the co-operative movement but clear working relations have developed which divide conversion tasks according to the expertise of the unions and co-operative movement. Inside the Lega co-operatives the unions have failed to adapt their roles as worker representatives to suit the changing character of co-operatives.

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  • Jenny Thornley, 1983. "Workers' Co-operatives and Trade Unions: The Italian Experience," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 4(3), pages 321-344, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:4:y:1983:i:3:p:321-344
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X8343003
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    1. Chris Cornforth, 1982. "Trade Unions and Producer Co-operatives," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 3(1), pages 17-30, February.
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    2. Ignacio Bretos & Rory Ridley-Duff & David Wren, 2025. "Crafting alternative work organisations: Paradoxes of workplace democracy and emancipation in worker-buyout cooperatives," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 46(4), pages 1002-1030, November.
    3. Yohanan Stryjan, 1994. "The Formation of New Cooperatives: Theory and the Swedish Case," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 15(4), pages 565-594, November.
    4. John Pencavel & Luigi Pistaferri & Fabiano Schivardi, 2006. "Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 60(1), pages 23-44, October.

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