{"product_id":"design-of-a-worker-cooperatives-geert-reuten-9789004531079","title":"Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society: An Alternative Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, and the Transition Towards It","description":"What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it, thereby making a convincing case. In Reuten's design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns the means of production. The legal structure of worker cooperatives is such that workers have full rights to the fruits of the cooperative without owning it, and yet the state does not own the cooperatives either. Interestingly, worker councils in the economic and state domains vote on all economically relevant matters. In Reuten's work, the free choice of occupation and of specific consumer goods is even larger than in capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geert Reuten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004531076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004531079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Geert Reuten","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46617819545855,"sku":"9789004531079","price":236.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17bd5605-1aa8-43b6-ba19-82335ef1fa98.jpg?v=1740068426","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/design-of-a-worker-cooperatives-geert-reuten-9789004531079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}