The Final Frontier of Democracy

16 05 2009
The democratization of the workplace could be perceived as the final frontier of democracy.

A new economic model is being created in Argentina and elsewhere. The reclamation of abandoned factories and other workplaces has lead to a radical new paradigm and possibly an era of self control.

Some environmentalists believe that greater democracy in the workplace would have positive impacts on the ability of companies to be aware of the needs and concerns of communities and the potential for the company to respond appropriately. and the limitations of un-needed management and ownership structures that concentrate wealth and waste resources.

The framing of Sin Patron…. “no boss” is very simple and the logic is speaking to many people. People are looking for solutions as our global economy collapses and we need to reinvent the ways we do everything. This book provides an important new way of looking at how to address the challenges we face. Argentina’s economy already collapsed… does this provide us a view of what might lay ahead for us?

The question we seem to be facing is do we make a graceful transition to a new economic model or do we make it even harder on ourselves.

clipped from www.democracynow.org

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SERGIO CIANCAGLINI: [translated] Today, the factories continue to operate, and better all the time. And also, there are new factories that are being recovered. And something else is also happening. Many organizations, many children of these factories, are being born with a horizontal work style, separate, completely autonomous of the government and political parties, creating a boss-less model and also new alternatives of cooperatives that are health cooperative projects, education, clothing, metalworking. Hundreds and hundreds of recovered factories and thousands and thousands of new projects, cooperative projects that are in solidarity, they’re also working with us. Lavaca is a cooperative. But, for example, they’re working with us on projects of psychiatric hospitals, and the doctors are discovering that the job, the work, helps to cure insanity.

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