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This chapter explores the ability of a worker cooperative to function as a democratic organization benefiting workers within the structure and national culture of managerial capitalism. It first reviews People's Daily Bread Bakery members' economic rewards in relation to the local community, and how these rewards differed by member role. The chapter then explores the bakery's workplace political rights—the ability of workers to legitimately participate in the direction and day-to-day operations of the organization and themselves—and reveals some of the outcomes of dividing workplace control into governance and management functions. The degree to which these rewards and rights were egalitarian—that is, accessible and enjoyed across class, race/ethnicity, and gender—are also explored. The chapter concludes with a summary of how the bakery challenges commonsense assumptions about the limits of democratic workplaces, as well as questions about how the bakery's managerial bureaucracy limited integration with a broad workers' movement. |
