Workers cooperativism seen from the workers perspective: notes for a new law of associated workers cooperativism in Puerto Rico

  • Rubén Colón Morales Instituto de Cooperativismo. Universidad de Puerto Rico
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/baidc-58-2021pp59-89
Keywords: salaried work, employment contract, consumer cooperatives, associated work cooperatives, capital and property rights

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify the deficiencies present in the Puertorrican workers cooperatives law, and to propose those changes that are required to make such statute a better instrument for the promotion and development of workers cooperatives as an alternative to the difficulties created by the capitalist enterprises for the working class. Such, departing from the analysis and identification of those elements inherently tied to the capitalist work system that has to be overcome as result of any new legislation truly intended to foster the free and democratic associations of worker’s in their own productive enterprises.

Received: 07 November 2020
Accepted: 06 April 2021

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Author Biography

Rubén Colón Morales, Instituto de Cooperativismo. Universidad de Puerto Rico

Rubén Colón Morales JD, LLM

Acting Director of the Cooperative Studies Institute of the University of Puerto Rico 

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2021-05-12
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Colón Morales, Rubén. 2021. “Workers Cooperativism Seen from the Workers Perspective: Notes for a New Law of Associated Workers Cooperativism in Puerto Rico”. International Association of Cooperative Law Journal, no. 58 (May), 59-89. https://doi.org/10.18543/baidc-58-2021pp59-89.
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