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	cac — Mondragon Unibertsitatea
		The Mondragon Cooperative Experience has successfully integrated the cooperative model within the demands of the competitive economic environment.
		This has made it a centre of interest and study for numerous specialists and researchers who are concerned with a desire for more democratic, participative ways of performing business, as a means towards creating a fairer, more solidarity-orientated society.
		It is also an object of study as part of degree and postgraduate courses in universities all over the world.
	www.mondragon.edu /cac (660 words)

	Mondragon
		Lacking a stream of constant, profit-seeking investors, the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation, faced a severe financial crisis during the waning months of 1959; the co-operatives themselves were forbidden by law to use what little property they possessed as collateral in loans, and often faced difficulties purchasing new equipment and hiring managers.
		Mondragon itself is adapting to the open economy, purchasing capitalist firms overseas and hiring contracted, temporary employees when needed.
		The sovereignty of labor and the instrumental nature of capital appear to be losing in the war of ideas, though recently some co-operatives have seceded in an effort to regain their institutional integrity and to preserve the traditional emphases on locality and Basqueness.
	www.thirdway.org /files/world/mondragon.html (2466 words)

	Mondragon: Keeping in Order to Give More
		Lacking a stream of constant, profit-seeking investors, the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation, faced a severe financial crisis during the waning months of 1959; the co-operatives themselves were forbidden by law to use what little property they possessed as collateral in loans, and often faced difficulties purchasing new equipment and hiring managers.
		Their discontent with Spanish rule in general led to a detestation of Francoism in particular, and Mondragon proved an outlet for their frustration; anarchist opponents of nationalism long held the area, and many were sympathetic to their cause.
		Mondragon itself is adapting to the open economy, purchasing capitalist firms overseas and hiring contracted, temporary employees when needed.
	www.geocities.com /kevinjjonesy/distributism/mondragon.html (2442 words)

	The Challenge of Mondragon
		The Mondragon network was founded by a Catholic priest, Don Jose Maria Arizmendi, a man who had narrowly missed being put to death by Franco as a result of his participation in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.
		Mondragon produces everything from home appliances (it is the second largest refrigerator manufacturer in Spain) to machine tool factories and ferry boats, both of which it exports abroad.
		Mondragon is worth studying because it works, and the argument can be made that utopian theory must always confront the practical since the burden of proof is on the theorist.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /dward/classes/powpart/benellomondragon.html (3913 words)

	Welcome! — Mondragon Bookstore And Coffeehouse
		Mondragon is a political bookstore and vegan restaurant located in Winnipeg's historic exchange district.
		The word Mondragon comes from the Euskadi (Basque) town of the same name meaning "Dragon Mountain" in English.
		Located in Northern Spain, Mondragon – or Arrasate in the Basque language – is known for its extensive network of workers' cooperatives, and has been the subject of numerous books and articles.
	mondragon.ca (188 words)

	USAO-SDTX-060206-Mondragon
		A third defendant, Maximino Mondragon, also known as “El Chimino,” 57, the owner of El Potrero de Chimino Bar and La Margarita Restaurant located on Hempstead Highway, pleaded guilty to the same two federal felony offenses on January 23, 2006, and is pending sentencing on April 10, 2006.
		Over 100 women were recovered from bars and restaurants associated with Mondragon and other associates in mid-November 2005 following the arrest of the defendants.
		Interviews of some of these young women established that women who sought permission to pay their debt through other means were not allowed to - the conspirators linked the compelled service directly to the debt.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/txs/releases/February2006/060206-Mondragon.htm (633 words)

	Dollars and Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice
		In 1958 the founders of Mondragon encountered a crisis when the Spanish government deemed the coop members to be self-employed, and hence ineligible for government social security and unemployment benefits.
		Depositors flocked to the bank from the community, attracted by both its competitive interest rate and the knowledge that their deposits would be lent to the coops to create local jobs.
		Perhaps the most crucial gathering for reorienting Mondragon was held in 1988 with the theme "Facing Up to the European Community." There coop managers agreed that their enterprises were on a collision course with multinationals because of the type of products they made and considered how to get out of the way.
	www.dollarsandsense.org /archives/1997/1197huet.html (3019 words)

	Worker Co-operatives - BC Institute for Co-operative Studies
		The youth of Mondragon were caught between an older paternalistic order and new social ideas, many of which were connected to strong religious beliefs.
		Mondragon continues to apply ten principles, inspired by Don José María: Open Admission, Democratic Organisation, Sovereignty of Labour, the Instrumental and Subordinate Character of Capital, Participatory Management, Payment Solidarity, Interco-operation, Social Transformation, Universality, and Education.
		However, Mondragon continues to be a successful, democratic, driving economic and social force in the Basque region.
	web.uvic.ca /bcics/research/worker/mondragon.htm (683 words)

	Mondragon: A better way to go to work?
		For the Mondragon cooperatives, capital is something they rent to benefit the worker-owners.
		If we are going to talk about economic development, helping people reach their full development as human persons, benefitting the common good, and enhancing the dignity of the human person, we have to talk about practical ways to implement these ideals.
		This is what the Mondragon Cooperatives of Spain have done, and it is a model that can be considered for implementation right here in Oklahoma -- if we ever decide to take the social doctrines of the Church as seriously as we do the other teachings of the Faith.
	www.justpeace.org /mondragon.htm (1365 words)

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		Mondragon’s cooperative enterprises were developed in a post-war economy where businesses did not have to be very good to succeed.
		The Mondragon firms were fortunate that their size allowed them a way to address the fluctuations of the market not only at the level of the individual firm but also at the level of the cooperative group and the system.
		The burden of the cutbacks was born disproportionately by blue-collar workers.
	www.snhu.edu /ManagementinMondragon.doc (12529 words)

	Mike Long / The Mondragon Co-Operative Federation
		The Mondragon Co-operative Federation (MCF) is a community of economically highly successful worker-owned, worker-controlled production and consumption co-operatives centred around Mondragon, a town in the Basque region of northern Spain, and now spreading throughout the Basque provinces and beyond.
		Stanford law students learn about the legal obstacles to setting up such entities in the USA Enlightened Australian trade unionists consider whether using union funds to start "mini-Mondragons" for their unemployed members might be more effective than filling politicians' pockets in the vain hope of slowing corporate job export to non-union, low-wage, third world countries.
		The generalizability of the Mondragon model may be considered in at least two ways: in terms of its practical viability and its ideological acceptability.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /long_mondragon.html (1182 words)

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