Cooperatives are still one of the models that continue to surprise economists and analysts of the developed world. However, the economic successes of the cooperatives (jobs, investment and industrial growth) have eclipsed their social effects. Workers in this economic model also have their own story of denied rights, unused powers and inequalities that appear in the pages of this book. The thesis that Sharryn Kasmir presents, after scrutinizing this economic phenomenon, is that a deterioration in the principles of the cooperatives has occurred.








