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    A worker cooperative basically is a cooperative possessed and controlled by its "worker-owner". There are no external or consumer owners in a worker cooperative and the workers can only own shares of the business.

    Generally one membership share is allotted to a member and one membership share is equal to one vote. Membership is not obligatory for all the employees, but normally only employees can only become members. One of the most popular examples of the worker cooperation is the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation which is located in Basque County.

    Given that there is no coherent legislation available across America, much fewer federal laws, most worker cooperatives apply conventional consumer cooperative law and try to make their objective better. When the present cooperative movement emerged in the 1960s it expanded mainly on a method of "collective ownership", where equivalent value shares were given out as representative democratic voting rights.
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