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Cooperatives

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It is a very good question to ask why the factory system substituted capitalist for workers’ control over the production process. As Andrew Ure remarked,

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Coates, K. (2018). Cooperatives. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_382

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