Book
Institutional development and capital accumulation in a complex of Basque worker cooperatives
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1989 • Pages: 4, 12, 416
By: Milbrath, Robert Stephen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of long-run capital accumulation in a Mondragon-type cooperative and a discussion of the theoretical possibilities for the future development of the cooperative economic system as a means of reproducing itself '…on a larger scale under various economic conditions, and scenarios of membership turnover' (p. 9). The first chapter presents the historical background on the formation of the Mondragon cooperatives. Chapter two takes up the question of how the cooperative enterprises respond to changing political and economic circumstances over a period of time that is divided into four historical phases. In the third chapter of this source various economic theories are discussed as applied to the producer cooperative in general, with particular reference to the Mondragon cooperative institutions. Chapter four is a study of capital accumulation in the cooperatives. Chapter five is largely theoretical and uses models to study a number of corollary implications regarding cooperative development. The sixth and last chapter of this work provides a useful summary of the key points of the author's study.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Income and demand
- Insurance
- Business cycles
- Labor relations
- Ownership and control of capital
- Cooperative organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basques
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1990-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1981-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ninteenth century - 1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mondragon, Guipuzcoa Province, Spain
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Robert Stephen Milbrath
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Michigan, 1986
- UM 8612582
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-416)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basques