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HOBBS, Phil. "THE UK WORKER CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN 1988." Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 60, no. 4 (1989): 475–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1989.tb01341.x.

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Puspasari, Novita, and Yanuar E. Restianto. "By Hook Or By Crook: From Pedicab Drivers to Company Owners through Start-Up Worker Co-Operatives." Performance 27, no. 1 (2020): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/1.jp.2020.27.1.2426.

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Disruption of information technology has threatened several jobsin the informal sector. As a result, the income gap between the rich and the poor can get wider. In Purwokerto, Central Java, the emergence of online application-based transportation has disrupted the work of becak drivers. This research used actionresearch method. In action research, researcher conduct research and at the same time make changes and interventions to the object. In the first stage, diagnosis,it was found that becak drivers' work was no longer competitive. Therefore, the intervention made with establishing a start-up worker co-operativesmodel, an online-based worker-cooperative for former becak drivers. In this model, becak drivers are directed to work in service sectors, such as cleaning service, gardener, plumber, and other service works.Orderingprocess can bemade through online application which can be downloaded for free in android devices.There are two implications in this study. First, in theory, this study offers a relatively new model, start-up worker co-operative. This model enables all workers to be owners in their co-operative company. Second, in practice, if successfully implemented, this model can be replicated for other sectors and other regions. As a result, start-up worker co-operative can be one solution to overcome income inequality.
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Preluca, Andreea, Karin Hakelius, and Cecilia Mark-Herbert. "Sustainability of Worker Co-Operatives." Sustainability 14, no. 18 (2022): 11542. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141811542.

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With the world of business often criticised for contributing to social and environmental damage, addressing sustainability has become necessary for virtually all business models, including co-operatives. This article investigates ways in which worker co-operatives can contribute to a more sustainable world, using the conceptual lens of Doughnut Economics (DE). It places enterprises, as a supporting pillar of our economies, at the intersection between meeting social needs and operating within planetary boundaries. A descriptive multiple case study of six worker co-operatives in the UK indicates that these enterprises contribute to sustainability primarily by embodying a mission of fulfilling the needs of workers and their communities, rather than just aiming for financial gains. Worker co-operatives are enterprises with highly generative design traits, distributive of the wealth they generate, and to some degree regenerative by design. Their strengths lie in learning capacity and distributive values that contribute to social sustainability. The implications of the study are demonstrated in the use of the DE model for addressing sustainability in the studied worker co-operatives. This article contributes to the body of knowledge on sustainability in worker co-operatives as a relatively less researched form of co-operative organisation, employing DE as a holistic framework which so far has been seldom used in business research.
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Mellor, Mary, Janet Hannah, and John Stirling. "Who’s in Control? Job Creation Co-Operatives in a Capitalist Economy." Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 1, no. 4 (1987): 277–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02601079x8700100406.

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In Britain a new generation of worker co-operatives have emerged that differ from earlier phases of co-operative development in that they have been formed primarily to create jobs in response to the high level of unemployment. All the major political parties favour co-operative development and co-operative support organisations of various kinds have been set up at local and national level. This paper argues that such ‘job creation’ co-operatives and the organisations that support them have come under great pressure to prioritise job creation as against the formulation of effective and secure co-operative structures. This pressure arises because the policies surrounding co-operative development have not taken account of the severe economic pressures the co-operatives face and the consequent effect upon their ability to sustain the co-operative principles of ownership and control of the business by the people who work in it. In the light of the specific needs and problems of the new generation of worker co-operatives the paper argues that the concepts of co-operative ownership and control need to be reassessed, in particular in relation to membership. The distinction between a co-operative and a collective is also re-evaluated together with the need for co-operative structures to be replicated in other aspects of the local community.
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Thomas, Alan. "Measuring the success of worker co-operatives and co-operative support organisations." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 2, no. 4 (1988): 298–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690948808725912.

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Bernardi, Andrea, Andrea Cori, Mattia Granata, Keti Lelo, and Salvatore Monni. "Rescuing firms in a co-operative way: worker buyouts in Italy." Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues 10, no. 1 (2022): 242–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2022.10.1(13).

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Davis, Peter. "Co-operative Development as a Trade Union Strategy." Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 2, no. 3 (1988): 159–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02601079x8800200302.

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This article argues that trade union and other progressive bodies in Britain, Europe and North America need to use their membership and broader labour movement contacts as a resource for financing worker co-operative development, not as a simple act of altruism, but out of self-interest. The author argues that such a strategy, properly regulated and managed would help to defend wages, extend trade union membership and organization, and could help promote majority shareholding in conventional companies by Trade Union Trusts. The author seeks to demonstrate that working people have the means from their own resources to eliminate unemployment. The figures quoted in the text are based on U.K. Sources, however similar figures have been produced for North America by Caftel, B. in “The Billion-Dollar Low Income Neighborhood” in Co-op Magazine, Sept/Oct 1980, Ann Arbor, USA.
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Jensen, Anthony. "The 1980s Worker Co-operative Buyout Experience in Australia. Learning from Praxis." Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity 5, no. 1 (2017): 54–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2016.004.

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Neale, C. W., and T. Field. "Is there a Worker Co‐operative Finance Life Cycle? — An Exploratory Study." Management Research News 8, no. 4 (1985): 9–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb027868.

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CORNFORTH, Chris, and Alan THOMAS. "THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF THE WORKER CO-OPERATIVE SECTOR IN THE UK:." Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 65, no. 4 (1994): 641–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1994.tb01405.x.

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Rowe, James, Ana Maria Peredo, Megan Sullivan, and John Restakis. "Co-operative Development, Policy, and Power in a Period of Contested Neoliberalism: The Case of Evergreen Co-operative Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio." Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes 12, no. 1 (2017): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.18740/s4m628.

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After the financial crisis in 2008 and amid growing concerns about climate change, interest in systemic alternatives to neoliberal capitalism is growing. This cultural shift helps explain the enthusiasm from political elites, media, and academics that greeted the launch of Evergreen Co-operative Corporation in 2009. Based in Cleveland Ohio, Evergreen is a network of worker-owned co-operatives with scalability and replicability woven into its design. But how warranted is the broad-based enthusiasm around Evergreen? Is this a model that can be replicated across North America as its founders suggest? Based on site visits and stakeholder interviews, we argue that there are important limits on desires to reproduce the “Cleveland Model.” However, its ambitions for scalability and replicability position it to contribute to the important project of movement building that can facilitate the policy change needed to scale up the co-operative alternative.
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Hoffmann, Elizabeth A. "Workplace Dispute Resolution and Quality of Work Life: The Worker Co-Operative Alternative." International Journal of Self Help and Self Care 6, no. 2 (2012): 169–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/sh.6.2.e.

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Selvaraju, P. "Working Performance of Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu: A Study." Asian Review of Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (2018): 71–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.51983/arss-2018.7.1.2822.

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Co-operation in its ordinary sense would mean working together. Whereas in its technical sense the term would denote a special mode of doing business, which gives rise to the formal organization and the methods and techniques associated with it. The formal co-operation is the framework for people working together according to certain conditions or principles which the participants agree to observe. Banking is a service industry. The main objective of the banking is to provide the financial support to its customers / members in co-operatives. The urban co-operative banks occupy a significant place in the urban credit movement. The urban co-operative credit movement started in India with the chief object of catering to the banking and credit requirements of the urban middle class, e.g., the small trader of businessman, the artisan or factory worker, the salaried people with a limited fixed income in urban or semi-urban areas. This study is an Empirical Research; study reveals the working performance of the Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu, India. The core finding of the study will explore the knowledge path and give a financial outlook of UCBs for researchers and policy makers in all respect to take effective decisions.
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Kluge, Norbert. "Worker participation and co-operative corporate management in international corporations from a trade union perspective." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 7, no. 1 (2001): 140–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890100700112.

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Thomas, Alan. "Worker Ownership in the UK 1992 and Financial Support Strategies for the Co-operative Movement." Economic and Industrial Democracy 14, no. 4 (1993): 557–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x93144005.

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Jaumier, Stéphane. "Preventing chiefs from being chiefs: An ethnography of a co-operative sheet-metal factory." Organization 24, no. 2 (2016): 218–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508416664144.

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Knowledge of how democracy and equality are practically achieved within member-based organisations such as co-operatives remains underdeveloped in the literature. In order to investigate this question, this study is based on a piece of ethnographic work, namely, 1 year of participant observation as a factory worker, which I conducted within a French co-operative sheet-metal factory. Pondering the presence within the co-operative of seemingly powerless chiefs, I draw on the works of French anthropologist Pierre Clastres (1934–1977) on stateless societies in order to study co-operators in their ‘continual effort to prevent chiefs from being chiefs’. Three types of day-to-day practices appear to be central for members of the co-operative in circumventing the coalescence of power in the hands of their chiefs: a relentlessly voiced refusal of the divide between chiefs and lay members; a permanent requirement for accountability and endless overt critique towards chiefs; and the use of schoolboy humour. The case, as analysed through a Clastrian lens, evidences a novel avenue that is conducive to avoiding the fate of oligarchisation within democratic organisations. Indeed, it shows how power can be kept at bay by being named and then embodied in a figure, who is eventually – through mostly informal practices – stripped of all authority. In addition, it suggests that our understanding of co-operation could be greatly improved if researchers’ dominant focus on governance was complemented by studies anchored in the everyday experience of co-operators.
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Murphy, Linda. "No Heir apparent? Exploring the Worker Co-operative Model as a Solution to Family Business Continuity." Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity 6, no. 2 (2017): 20–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2017.008.

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EUM, HYUNGSIK. "Book review: Morris Altman, Anthony Jensen, Akira Kurimoto, Robby Tulus, Yashavantha Dongre and Seungkwon Jang (Eds.): Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential." Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity 11, no. 1 (2022): 86–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2022.005.

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“Is it possible to identify a regional cooperative model (or models) of the Asia Pacific region?” With 23 case studies across 11 countries and four cooperative sectors (agricultural cooperatives, consumer cooperatives, credit cooperatives and worker cooperatives), the 44 authors of "Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential" boldly try to answer this question. This voluminous book with around 400 pages-a valuable fruit of a long and collective adventure of cooperative researchers in the Asia-Pacific region-was stimulated and constructed by dynamics around regional conferences of the International Cooperative Alliance Asia-Pacific Committee on Cooperative Research (ICAAP CCR).
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Bauwens, Michel, and Vasilis Kostakis. "From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 1 (2014): 356–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i1.561.

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Two prominent social progressive movements are faced with a few contradictions and a paradox. On the one side, we have a re-emergence of the co-operative movement and worker-owned enterprises which suffer from certain structural weaknesses. On the other, we have an emergent field of open and Commons-oriented peer production initiatives which create common pools of knowledge for the whole of humanity, but are dominated by start-ups and large multinational enterprises using the same Commons. Thus we have a paradox: the more communist the sharing license used in the peer production of free software or open hardware, the more capitalist the practice. To tackle this paradox and the aforementioned contradictions, we tentatively suggest a new convergence that would combine both Commons-oriented open peer production models with common ownership and governance models, such as those of the co-operatives and the solidarity economic models.
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Bauwens, Michel, and Vasilis Kostakis. "From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 1 (2014): 356–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/vol12iss1pp356-361.

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Two prominent social progressive movements are faced with a few contradictions and a paradox. On the one side, we have a re-emergence of the co-operative movement and worker-owned enterprises which suffer from certain structural weaknesses. On the other, we have an emergent field of open and Commons-oriented peer production initiatives which create common pools of knowledge for the whole of humanity, but are dominated by start-ups and large multinational enterprises using the same Commons. Thus we have a paradox: the more communist the sharing license used in the peer production of free software or open hardware, the more capitalist the practice. To tackle this paradox and the aforementioned contradictions, we tentatively suggest a new convergence that would combine both Commons-oriented open peer production models with common ownership and governance models, such as those of the co-operatives and the solidarity economic models.
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Bhattacharya, Puja, Kirby Nielsen, and Arjun Sengupta. "Timing of Communication." Economic Journal 130, no. 630 (2020): 1623–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa042.

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Abstract Using an experiment, we demonstrate that a communication regime in which a worker communicates about his intended effort is less effective in: (i) soliciting truthful information; and (ii) motivating effort than one in which he communicates about his past effort. Our experiment uses a real-effort task, which additionally allows us to demonstrate the effects of communication on effort over time. We show that the timing of communication affects the dynamic pattern of work. In both treatments, individuals are most co-operative closest to the time of communication. Our results reveal that the timing of communication is a critical feature that merits attention in the design of mechanisms for information transmission in strategic settings.
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Edwards, Paul, Margaret Collinson, and Chris Rees. "The Determinants of Employee Responses to Total Quality Management: Six Case Studies." Organization Studies 19, no. 3 (1998): 449–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/017084069801900304.

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Total quality management has been a central element in many efforts directed towards organizational change. Theories tend to fall into two extreme camps, which hold either that TQM transforms attitudes and behaviour or that it is nothing but a means to intensify work and tighten managerial control. More recent analysis is more balanced, but lacks quantitative data on employee responses and also neglects the varying contexts in which TQM exists. This study addresses these issues by taking six named organizations from different sectors of the UK economy and by blending qualitative interviewing with a survey of 280 employees. Findings show a wide acceptance of quality principles but (in contrast to the transformation view) little evidence of substantial empowerment of workers. Compared with the intensification view, growing work effort was not widely disliked, and, crucially, favourable views of quality were strongest, not weakest, where the monitoring of workers was most intense. Multivariate analysis supports the 'disciplined worker' thesis, that quality is most accepted where there is a controlled work environment. Case material indicates that the conditions for success in quality programmes are notably high job security and a co-operative relationship with trade unions.
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Nagaraja, G. "Socio-Economic Status of Coir Co-operative Societies Worker: A Case of East and West -Godavari Districts of Andhra Pradesh." Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology 9, no. 2 (2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/ajaees/2016/22916.

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Kaposi, Zoltán. "A dél-dunántúli gazdasági elit változásai." Jelenkori Társadalmi és Gazdasági Folyamatok 5, no. 1-2 (2010): 187–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/jtgf.2010.1-2.187-191.

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The previous economic and social elite lost its influence after the World War II. They were chased, sentenced to prison and many of them were tortured to death. The Commun-ist Party's local members were appointed to be managers of large estates and factories. They were the so called „worker directors". Their tasks were the dismissal of the previous managers and the launch of the planned-economy. Large estates were parceled in 1945. In the ages 1950 the owners of these parceled lands established farmers' co-operative. Some well-functioning manors were transformed to large state farms. The selection of executives was based on how loyal to the Communist Part they were. Because of these, the produc-tivity of the agriculture and the industry declined.
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Ursell, Gillian D. "Book Reviews : William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte: Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Co-operative Complex." Organization Studies 10, no. 4 (1989): 594–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/017084068901000414.

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Ko, Fred, Stephanie Chow, Abigail Baim-Lance, et al. "ALIGN-CARE: IMPLEMENTATION AND FEASIBILITY OF NEW GERIATRIC SURGERY CO-MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL FRAILTY." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (2022): 560–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2116.

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Abstract Pre-operative geriatric evaluation in frail older patients that addresses both medical and psychosocial needs is often not completed prior to surgery, leaving frail older adults ill prepared for surgery. The ALIGN-CARE interprofessional co-management model uniquely serves to standardize care and coordination amongst the surgeon, geriatrician and social worker in ambulatory settings to allow a greater window of time to intervene for surgical optimization. Program elements include assessment of preoperative medications, functional status, cognition, nutrition, What Matters Most, advance care planning (ACP), and social determinants of health. Recommendations and action items from the geriatric-social work team are presented to surgeon and primary care physicians for follow-up and optimization. Program and process elements recorded in a REDCap database facilitate longitudinal evaluation of ALIGN-CARE model implementation feasibility. Initial data of 9 frail surgical oncology patients indicate increases in meaningful ACP discussions, patient-oriented decisions regarding surgery candidacy, and surgeon referrals for inpatient geriatric consultation post-operatively as a result of ALIGN-CARE. Current analyses to assess feasibility and quality of the program include thematic coding of program documents, semi-structured interviews of key stakeholders (surgeons, geriatricians, social workers, patients), and quantitative analysis of program outcomes, including uptake of program elements and process measures. Planned areas of analytic focus include workflow, cross-specialty coordination, and patient and primary care engagement and activation. We anticipate identifying specific barriers and facilitators of ALIGN-CARE implementation in our evaluation to aid the dissemination and upscaling of interprofessional co-management programs aimed to improve outcomes and quality of life for frail, older surgical patients.
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Lanoix, Monique. "Labor as Embodied Practice: The Lessons of Care Work." Hypatia 28, no. 1 (2013): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12008.

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In post‐Fordist economies, the nature of laboring activities can no longer be subsumed under a Taylorized model of labor, and the service sector now constitutes a larger share of the market. For Maurizio Lazzarato, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and other theorists in the post‐Marxist tradition, labor has changed from a commodity‐producing activity to one that does not produce a material object. For these authors, this new type of labor is immaterial labor and entails communicative acts as well as added worker agency. This paper reflects on this new paradigm of labor by examining the paid practices of care defined as the activities performed by individuals who have a mandate to help another adult accomplish the tasks of self‐care. Because care workers take care of other bodies, care labor exemplifies an embodied practice. I make use of the corporeality of care to put forward the notion of thin and thick embodiment in order to examine critically the meaning of immaterial labor and to support my claim that immaterial labor, as conceptualized by Hardt and Negri, erases both the materiality and relationality of care labor. Furthermore, typifying care labor as immaterial only serves to maintain its marginalized status.Care Assistant. Required to work within a private residential center to assist nursing staff. Experience desirable, qualifications an advantage, but caring and understanding more important than either. Must have good English to understand instructions and be co‐operative to work in a friendly team environment (Toynbee 2007, 220).
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Mackeith, Joy. "Assessing the reliability of the Outcomes Star in research and practice." Housing, Care and Support 17, no. 4 (2014): 188–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/hcs-11-2014-0027.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a pilot to test an approach to measuring inter-rater reliability of the Outcomes Star suite of tools. The intention, in publishing this account, is to show transparency in on-going development of the tool, and to invite further co-operative development. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 24 workers, trained to use the first edition Family Star, scored a tested case study. Scoring was analysed using two metrics on the ten-point scale and the underlying five-point Journey of Change. The case study approach and metrics were evaluated for validity and accessibility. Findings – This initial evaluation suggests this edition of the Family Star has good inter-rater reliability for the five-point Journey of Change, reaching the accepted threshold of 0.8 for the inter-rater reliability coefficient when three outlying workers are excluded. The reliability for the full ten point scale was moderate. Research limitations/implications – The sample size of 24 raters is small, though sufficient for an initial test of the approach, which will now be applied to larger samples, using other versions of the Outcomes Star. Practical implications – The findings indicate that it is important that service providers test worker understanding of the scales to ensure consistency of use. The second edition of the Family Star incorporates more precise definitions of the ten-point scales to help improve the reliability. Originality/value – The case study method and metrics provide an accessible measure of reliability, both for Star development and to enable managers to assess the reliability of an organisation's client data for internal and external purposes.
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Bauwens, Michel, and Vasilis Kostakis. "FROM THE COMMUNISM OF CAPITAL TO CAPITAL FOR THE COMMONS: TOWARDS AN OPEN CO-OPERATIVISM." P2P E INOVAÇÃO 2, no. 1 (2015): 56–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.21721/p2p.2015v2n1.p56-65.

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Two prominent social progressive movements are faced with a few contradictions and a paradox. On the one side, we have a re-emergence of the co-operative movement and worker-owned enterprises which suffer from certain structural weaknesses. On the other, we have an emergent field of open and Commons-oriented peer production initiatives which create common pools of knowledge for the whole of humanity, but are dominated by start-ups and large multinational enterprises using the same Commons. Thus we have a paradox: the more communist the sharing license used in the peer production of free software or open hardware, the more capitalist the practice. To tackle this paradox and the aforementioned contradictions, we tentatively suggest a new convergence that would combine both Commons-oriented open peer production models with common ownership and governance models, such as those of the co-operatives and the solidarity economic models.DO COMUNISMO DE CAPITAL AO CAPITAL PARA OS COMUNS: PARA UM COOPERATIVISMO ABERTO Resumo Dois importantes movimentos sociais progressistas enfrentam algumas poucas contradições e um paradoxo. Por um lado, temos a reemergência do movimento cooperativo e empresas pertencentes a trabalhadores que sofrem de certas vulnerabilidades estruturais. Por outro lado, temos uma área de atuação que emerge de iniciativas abertas e orientadas por um processo colaborativo (peer production) de trabalhadores designados Comuns que criam redes comuns de conhecimento para toda a humanidade, mas são dominadas por startups e grandes empresas multinacionais que usam os mesmos Comuns. Assim temos um paradoxo: quanto mais comunista o compartilhamento sob a mesma licença usado no processo colaborativo (peer production) de software livre ou hardware aberto, mais capitalista é a prática. Para enfrentar tal paradoxo e as contradições já mencionadas, como tentativa sugerimos uma nova convergência que combinaria tanto os modelos orientados aos Comuns e abertos de colaboração peer production de posse comum, quanto modelos de governança, tais quais aqueles das cooperativas e os modelos econômicos baseados na solidariedade.
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Suchner, Robert W., and Judy Wajcman. "Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers' Co-operative." Contemporary Sociology 14, no. 3 (1985): 378. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2071360.

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Kurimoto, Akira. "Outline of the Workers Co-operative Act in Japan - Líneas generales de la Ley de cooperativas de trabajadores en Japón." CIRIEC-España, revista jurídica de economía social y cooperativa, no. 38 (July 22, 2021): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/ciriec-jur.38.20995.

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The Japanese co-operative legislation is characterized by the separate laws that are specializing to regulate the particular categories of co-operatives and enacted in line with the industrial policies, and the strong government’s control on incorporation and business activities. The Industrial Co-operative Act of 1900 was a uniform law following the German model and provided for the legal framework of credit, supply, marketing and production2 co-operatives. After the Second World War, the allied force introduced the radical land reform as a part of economic democratization programs and helped to enact the Agricultural Co-operative Act in 1947 to cement the effects of reform through organizing farmers in agricultural co-operatives. Then, the other co-operative laws were enacted in line with industrial policies (fishery, forestry, banking, SMEs etc.) during 1948-1978.
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Wailare, Nasiru Bello. "Interest Free Salary-Workers Savings and Credit Co-Operative Society as A Panacea to Economic Hardship Faced By Workers in A Depressed Economy." International Journal of Business Administration and Management Research 3, no. 4 (2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.24178/ijbamr.2017.3.4.15.

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The conventional cooperative societies dated back to 1844 were built on interest-based operations, where interest is charged and paid on any financial advance to members and deposits made by members, respectively. Interest based transactions are not only forbidden by the two major religions in Nigeria, but are perceived to be negating the principle of mutual help and economic stability; which cooperatives are out to achieve. This paper examines the operations of interest free cooperative societies formed by salary-workers; with the aim of exploring the concept, objectives, activities, management and sources of funds to such societies. This study uses content analysis. From the review, this study found out that salary workers stand to enjoy a lot of benefits by forming Interest free co-operative societies. It is therefore concluded that Interest free savings and credit co-operative society is the most appropriate form of co-operative society through which workers used to improve on their savings.
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Abiev, Islambek, and Bakhytbay Paluanov. "THE STATE OG THE POLISH PRESS IN THE SOCIETY SINCE 1989." International Journal of Pedagogics 02, no. 04 (2022): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/ijp/volume02issue04-09.

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The article introduces the state of the Polish press since 1989 when started the Round Table Talks which led to the liquidation of the Press-Book-Movement Workers' Publishing Co-operative, the activities of the liquidation committee of the Press-Book-Movement Workers' Publishing Co-operative caused a great deal of controversy. Moreover, the research paper also points out some information about the press market including the publisher companies, their newspapers, and magazines. The changes in the press market after the emergence of Internet are one of the main aspects of the research object.
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MANSFIELD, NICK. "Paternalistic Consumer Co-operatives in Rural England, 1870–1930." Rural History 23, no. 2 (2012): 205–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793312000076.

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AbstractThe British co-operative movement is associated mainly with industrial areas. Where consumer co-operatives existed in the countryside they were located in market towns and formed by rural trade unions, especially railwaymen, occasionally quarrymen or farmworkers. Yet the Co-operative Union membership encompassed a significant number of small single village societies founded by paternalistic gentry.This paper draws on examples in Shropshire, East Yorkshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, to offer an account and explanation of the never before studied, paternalistic co-operatives. Recruiting estate workers and farm labourers, individual country squires showed themselves capable of using a co-operative ideology and framework, usually associated with the labour movement, to achieve very different and paternalistic goals. The relationship between these paternalistic village societies and the wider co-operative movement, both locally and nationally, is discussed, including the company paternalism of the Co-operative Wholesale Society's own farming operations. A comparison with the ‘Blue co-ops’ of the Lancashire Conservative dominated cotton spinners’ union is also made. The paper concludes that the failure of paternalistic co-operatives was part of the post Great War revival of rural cultural conservatism, linked to the effects of agricultural depression.
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Williams, Claire. "Book Reviews : Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers Co-Operative." Journal of Industrial Relations 28, no. 1 (1986): 150–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218568602800114.

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Haas, Ain. "Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers' Co-Operative. Judy Wajcman." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 12, no. 1 (1986): 172–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/494308.

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Hammond, Darrell, and John Luiz. "The co-operative model as a means of stakeholder management: An exploratory qualitative analysis." South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 19, no. 4 (2016): 630–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v19i4.1537.

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The South African economy has for some time been characterised by high unemployment, income inequality and a skills mismatch, all of which have contributed to conflict between business, government and labour. The co-operative model of stakeholder management is examined as a possible mitigating organisational form in this high-conflict environment. International experience indicates some success with co-operative models but they are not easy to implement effectively and face severe obstacles. Trust and knowledge sharing are critical for enabling a co-operative model of stakeholder management, which requires strong governance and adherence to strict rules. The model must balance the tension between optimisation of governance structures and responsiveness to members' needs. Furthermore, support from social and political institutions is necessary. We find barriers to scalability which manifest in the lack of depth of business skills, negative perception of the co-operative model by external stakeholders, government ambivalence, and a lack of willingness on the part of workers to co-operate for mutual benefit.
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Dai, Haijing, Yan Lau, and Ka Ho Lee. "Social Innovation, Value Penetration, and the Power of the Nonprofit Sector: Workers’ Co-Operative Societies in Hong Kong." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 48, no. 6 (2019): 1210–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764019863107.

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Using Care Store as a case study, this research examines the innovative development and value penetrations of workers’ co-operative societies in Hong Kong. Care Store operates through the practices of equality and mutual care, in the unfriendly neoliberalist social order of Hong Kong. The society penetrates the dominant models of labor organization and consumption process. But the penetration of structural inequalities is limited, because the female workers of the society remain low-income laborers, social boundary and exclusion still take place, and the workers internalize their cultural inferiority. In comparison with innovative organizations in other regions, workers’ co-operative societies in Hong Kong have little opportunity to rely on or collaborate with the public and private sectors, and they explore a more progressive path of penetration in development. Practices strengthening this path can not only sustain these young organizations but also enrich the understanding of the true potentials of the nonprofit sector.
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Nicol, Poppy, and Alice Taherzadeh. "Working Co-operatively for Sustainable and Just Food System Transformation." Sustainability 12, no. 7 (2020): 2816. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12072816.

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Co-operative ways of working can be understood as people-centred approaches. This article considers how co-operative ways of working have the potential to support the scaling-out of sustainable and just food systems in the context of Wales through people-centred change. Drawing upon a series of interviews with stakeholders involved in the sustainable and the co-operative food sector within Wales and international case studies, opportunities and challenges facing the scaling-out of sustainable and just food systems are considered. Findings demonstrate the potential of co-operative and community-based approaches to sustainable production, processing, distribution, and trading of healthy food that is affordable, culturally appropriate, and based upon an ethic of justice and care for land, workers, and animals. Community supported agriculture, incubator farms, food hubs, and platform co-operatives are identified as key mechanisms for sustainable and just food systems. Capacity building through education, information, and training are further critical foundations for co-operative and people-centred ways of working. In order to accelerate sustainable and just food futures, community-based participation, networks for training, access to resources and land, and transformative forms of governance, including legislative change, are key. We conclude by highlighting implications for future research into policy transfer and food system transformation.
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Kapoor, Neelam. "Case Study of Lizzat Co-Operative in India in Relation to Women Empowerment." Journal of Advance Research in Medical & Health Science (ISSN: 2208-2425) 1, no. 3 (2015): 15–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.53555/nnmhs.v1i3.632.

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Women are the biggest assets to society. In today scenario, women have full right to live their life’s with full confidence and good status. If a woman can handle house, it is not possible for her to handle outside situation. Today’s is women era scenario, each year we celebrate International women’s day on March 8th with a aim to mark achievements of women with a special status they deserve in society. In a present research paper a women empowerment is describe in context to Lizzat Papad women co-operatives. The factors were studied in context to women employment, status, values, and beliefs. The study shows that lizzat papad main goals are to organize women workers for full employment. Here employment means employment whereby workers obtain work security, income security, food security and social security (at least health care, child care and shelter).
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Eminson, Sophie. "PARTICIPATION IN ACTION: Collaborative project sees young people help design their own prosthetic limbs." Children and Young People Now 2018, no. 2 (2018): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/cypn.2018.2.54.

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Project Starworks Innovation Project Organisation Devices for Dignity NIHR Health Technology Co-operative Participation Summary Disabled young people who use prosthetic limbs have worked with technicians and clinicians to devise new products that will improve the comfort and quality of prosthetics, making their lives better
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Moore, Amy Fisher. "Marigold Beads: focused innovation in a Zimbabwean co-operative." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 12, no. 2 (2022): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-05-2021-0147.

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Learning outcomes Following discussion and analysis of the case, students should be able to explore how an individual’s background affects his/her perspective on entrepreneurial opportunities; analyse leadership behaviours that support an innovation process; and understand that constraints can enhance innovation. Case overview/Synopsis This real-life case explores the main protagonist, Joni Brenner, an arts university professor at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, and how over the past 10 years she worked with a group of co-operative beaders in Zimbabwe who developed hand loomed necklaces that were sold locally and internationally, placed in the African section of museum stores.The case provides an opportunity to explore the evolution of the Marigold product, the characteristics of an entrepreneur and how innovation can come from a very focused and constrained approach. Brenner’s involvement with the co-operative involved the supply of materials, design innovation and product sales. Innovation had come through focusing on the evolution of the core product, through different designs and colour combinations, learning through mistakes and through other artistic collaborations. The case concludes with Brenner questioning whether the innovation approach should be adapted to meet the needs of a potential new customer. Complexity academic level This case is appropriate for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate, MBA and executive education students focusing on entrepreneurship, small business development and/or innovation. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 7: Management Science.
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Chandrashekara, Y. P. "Co-Operative societies and women empowerment in rural provinces." Geo Eye 8, no. 1 (2019): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.53989/bu.ge.v8i1.9.

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Empowerment of women is a new ideology for carrying democratic values into the family and society. Empowerment of women means equal status to women. Women and children, equal ownership of productive resources, increase participation in economic and commercial sections, awareness of their rights and responsibilities. Rural women suffer the curse of being both socially and economically ‘invisible’. The civil society organizations work towards making them visible in these areas. Among these organizations, one with an open membership and democratic control, i.e., a cooperative organization will be more effective than other organizations working for the promotion of social and economic development. A dairy cooperative is one such civil society organization which aims at improving the rural people. Dairying has been an agriculture allied sector and indoor economic activity for women living in rural areas. It gives mass employment and thereby helps to promote economic development of the rural masses. Rural landless, small and marginal agricultural farmers and women are involved in the process of milk production. Dairy cooperatives, as workers level socio-economic organizations, have been working for the strengthening of the rural masses. In this context, the present study aims at examining the Social Change and Economic Development of Rural Women through Dairy Cooperatives. The purpose of the study specifies that the socio- and economic background, awareness of dairy cooperatives and participation of rural women members in dairy cooperatives have helped them achieve social change and economic development. Keywords: Women empowerment; Dairy cooperatives; employment and development
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Godden, Naomi Joy. "A co-operative inquiry about love using narrative, performative and visual methods." Qualitative Research 17, no. 1 (2016): 75–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794116668000.

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Participatory researchers advocate using presentational arts-based methods to collectively inquire into a social phenomenon. In a co-operative inquiry in an Australian rural community, ten community workers inquired into the ‘love ethic’ in their community work practice using narrative, performative and visual methods to gather, analyse and interpret data within cycles of reflection and action. Group members collectively and democratically chose to use presentational inquiry tools such as storytelling, dialogical performance, gift-giving, drawing and other non-traditional approaches to explore the topic and generate collaborative knowledge. These methods were engaging and empowering, and supported group members to develop a love-based framework of community practice. The group’s final collective drawing depicts the roots, trunk, fruit and saplings of a tree representing the values, process, outcomes and cyclical nature of the love ethic in community work.
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Taylor, Peter Mark, Andrew Olleveant, John Spink, Mike Osborne, and Ali Onder. "Co-Operative Planning Approach: A South-West Atlantic Frontier Exploration Area." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 1999, no. 1 (1999): 165–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-1999-1-165.

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ABSTRACT Oil industry alliances bring benefits in various fields, including emergency planning. The benefits will include consistency in oil spill response plans and procedures, plus potential cost savings. Government, organisations and groups involved will appreciate a single and comprehensive consultative process. Time and money will be saved, plan formats will be consistent and there will be less scope for confusion. Partnership building will be stronger and more effective. This paper will use a case study of cooperative oil spill contingency planning in the south-west Atlantic to illustrate these points. The Falkland Islands archipelago lies in the south-west Atlantic, approximately 400 km east of the tip of the South American mainland. In 1996 the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) undertook its first round of oil exploration licensing and awarded acreage. Four of the successful operating companies formed the Falklands Operators Sharing Agreement (FOSA). This co-operation extended to a number of areas, including a joint approach to oil spill contingency planning. Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) worked with FOSA to produce a generic oil spill contingency plan, to function for all the companies and differ only in its emergency contact section. The contingency planning process closely followed the guidelines promulgated by the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA, 1991) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO, 1995). A key factor was liaison with groups on the Islands and interfacing with the new Falkland Islands national oil spill contingency plan, which this paper will introduce.
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Gudasi, C. R., and Mahadev B. Kulamur. "Loan Waiver Schemes in Karnataka and Their Impact on Farmers." GBS Impact: Journal of Multi Disciplinary Research 8, no. 2 (2022): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.58419/gbs.v8i2.822207.

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"PACS are the banks, which are situated in rural area and plays a very important role in rural credit system by performing their activities on co-operative principles and also these banks are worked under the District Credit Co-operative Banks. They provide short term and medium-term loan to rural people to meet their financial requirements. But, the rural people still depend on unorganized sources such as money lenders in village, mandies, traders etc. So , various measures taken by Government to reduce these unorganized sources through the establishment of PACS in rural areas. Present study is an attempt to know the various loan waiver schemes of PACS in Karnatak and their impact on the economic life of the farmers. Study found that government of Karnataka announced the various loan waiver schemes during the 2012-2018. Crores together amount is released and Lakhs together farmers are benefited"
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Naseef, Mohemmad, and P. Jyothi. "Policy for Performance: Towards Integrating Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Approach on Co-operative Framework—The Case of Coir Co-operatives in Alappy." International Journal of Rural Management 15, no. 2 (2019): 218–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973005219876207.

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Industrial clustering and co-operativization are two globally acknowledged policy mechanisms for regional industrial development. Alappy district of Kerala is one of the major hubs of coir industry in India and it occupies a substantial place in the coir map of the world. Alappy possesses almost all the physical attributes of a typical industrial cluster with a critical mass of related units and ancillaries enjoying spatial agglomeration and sharing common facilities. The coir industry of Alappy is largely organized on ‘workers’ co-operative’ basis. Despite the incidence of these supportive policy measures and favourable environmental conditions, the industry is on the verge of decline. The findings of the current study show that though Alappy possesses a fare score in the assessment of its cluster attributes, most of the firms are consistently reporting losses and their number is increasing year by year. A similar trend is seen in the case of firm survival and new firm creation. Among the output indicators, employment generation is the only aspect which is consistently showing positive results. Drawing on personal interviews with relevant stakeholders such as managers/secretaries of co-operative societies and government officials and a critical analysis of various policy documents, this article attempts to explore why the globally acclaimed policy mechanisms such as industrial clustering and co-operativization fail to bring the fruits of competitiveness and innovation to the coir industry in Alappy. The study also proposes an entrepreneurial ecosystem approach as a mechanism to revive this floundering industry and discusses its adaptability and complementarity with the co-operative framework prevailing in the industry.
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Blackburn, Sheila. "Working-Class Attitudes to Social Reform: Black Country Chainmakers and Anti-Sweating Legislation, 1880–1930." International Review of Social History 33, no. 1 (1988): 42–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859000008634.

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SummaryHistorians have recently paid serious attention to the roles of working-class groups in the creation of British social policy, but have largely ignored involvement by sweated workers. This article reveals among chainmakers long-run campaigns against sweating – successively demanding state action to abolish domestic workshops, regulate hours, restrict female work, fix rates for the job, and institute co-operative production. Failure in these campaigns led, with major initiatives from female workers, to advocacy of a statutory minimum wage. The Trade Boards Act (1909) reflected such pressures for state aid, though the form the legislation took brought only limited benefits.
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Li, Dan, Shaoguo Zhai, Jian Zhang, Jinjuan Yang, and Xiao Wang. "Assessing Income-Related Inequality on Health Service Utilization among Chinese Rural Migrant Workers with New Co-Operative Medical Scheme: A Multilevel Approach." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 20 (2021): 10851. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010851.

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Background: Eliminating inequality in health service utilization is an explicit goal of China’s health system. Rural migrant workers with New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NCMS) still face the dilemma of limited health service; however, there is a lack of analysis or measurement on the income-related inequality of health service utilization. Method: The nationally representative data of the China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey in 2016 were used for analysis. Multilevel regressions were used to obtain robust estimates and to account for various covariates associated with health service utilization of rural migrant workers with NCMS. The concentration index and its decomposition method were applied to quantify the income-related inequality of health service utilization of rural migrant workers. Result: The multilevel model analysis indicated that influencing factors of health service utilization were diversified, including gender, city service quality index, type of industry, the per capita annual income, marital status, health self-assessment, the community health index and the number of friends. The concentration indices of the total cost of inpatient and OOP cost of inpatient were 0.102 (95%CI: 0.031, 0.149), and the CI of OOP cost of inpatient was 0.094 (95%CI: 0.007, 0.119), respectively. The horizontal inequality indices of the total cost of inpatient and OOP cost of inpatient were 0.051 and 0.009, respectively. Conclusion: Our study presented a unique opportunity to examine the potential influence factors of health service utilization of rural migrant workers with NCMS, and highlighted that unequal health service utilization is evident among rural migrant workers with NCMS. This study provides important corroborative evidence to take full account of the contribution of each determinant to the inequality and health service needs among rural migrant workers with NCMS, in order to improve the basic medical insurance and social security systems—particularly for some marginal groups in China.
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Downey, Kay. "Not my father’s auction catalog database! SCIPIO, 1980 to 2003." Art Libraries Journal 29, no. 2 (2004): 17–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200013560.

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Thirty years ago new computer technology made it possible for libraries to develop co-operative solutions for technical services. It was at that time that a small group of art librarians worked together to create SCIPIO – the Sales Catalog Index Project Input Online – in an innovative effort to streamline bibliographic control over their auction sales catalog collections. Driven by advancing technological changes and the move toward standardization, the database has since evolved to become the most comprehensive source for bibliographic control and access for auction sales catalogs.
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