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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by shiven on Saturday June 21, 2014 @01:45AM (#7924300)
Nice concept! Free-agent nation, but with a Marxist twist, heh! I like it! Any place that has successfully implemented this in the US?
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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by girvo on Saturday June 21, 2014 @03:36AM (#7924435)
Similar concepts to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

There was a company, a big one, that I forget the name of that was run like that through the second half of the 20th century, but I can't remember the name :(

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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by bildung on Saturday June 21, 2014 @06:54AM (#7924686)
Perhaps it was Mondragon? Mondragon started in 1956 and is now at 80000 workers and an annual revenue of 14 billion. It's still a worker cooperative in the 21st century, though :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by shiven on Saturday June 21, 2014 @10:29AM (#7925066)
Not a US company or established in the US. So not the example I asked for. I am aware of other non-US cooperatives, eg. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul
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