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Gregory Patmore, Emeritus Professor of Business and Labour History, University of Sydney

As the Latrobe Valley moves away from coal jobs, could a green worker’s cooperative offer a solution?

Workers at Earthworker Energy Manufacturing Co-op

Worker cooperatives may sound like something out of the 19th century, but they still exist in the age of global capitalism.

In Spain, for instance, the Mondragon Corporation is a huge worker-run cooperative based around 95 collectives – the largest cooperative in the world.

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