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In this chapter, Luis Razeto proposes a system of proportional voting in an organizational structure in which decision-making power and participation are distributed differentially, based on member contributions, in accordance with criteria of efficiency, justice, and democratic participation.

The cooperative approach of Mondragon and many others found revolutionary success in granting workers the sovereignty to shape their workplace. But dynamic governance extends more broadly: it empowers every participant to transform their immediate environment, making each of us direct co-creators of our own shared reality.

Matt and Josh discuss Luis Razeto's suggestion for weighting hours in a worker cooperative, presented in his book Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy.

Francisco  Pérez and Sarah Wang of the Center for Economic Democracy discuss the Economics for Emancipation online course.

In this chapter, Luis Razeto Migliaro further fleshes out the economic theory of the cooperative enterprise, tackling problems that are at once conceptual and practical, and offering solutions that often differ from traditional cooperative approaches.

Suggestions from two long time translators for practicing language justice.

Venezuela's communes are an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of cooperatives and state-owned socialist factories by addressing not just economic production but other social relationships like parenting and gender relations at the grassroots level.

How a 50 year old food co-op in Ithaca practices diversity, equity, and inclusion.

“Multi-stakeholder” co-ops have become popular in recent years, but what does it really mean to bring different groups together for common ownership and governance?

What form should member ownership take in a worker cooperative? How is the form of ownership related to the economic viability of the enterprise? How is ownership of equity allocated and measured, what impact does ownership and accumulation of equity have on distribution of surplus? In this chapter, Razeto offers an economic theory of ownership and distribution of surplus in worker enterprises, proposing the issuance of “labor shares” representing individual members’ ownership of equity.