InstitutionClaim Cited
CECOSESOLA is a Venezuelan federation and worker cooperative that coordinates food, health, funerals, finance, and production without a fixed managerial chain. Meetings, rotating work, shared criteria, and peer discipline distribute authority, but field research also finds unequal voice, long hours, exclusion, and coercive pressure.
Can a large network coordinate essential services without fixed hierarchy by making deliberation, rotation, shared criteria, and peer responsibility part of everyday work?
InstitutionClaim Cited
Workers at the failed Zanon ceramics plant occupied, restarted, and eventually secured the factory as the FaSinPat cooperative, making production knowledge and authority collective while remaining exposed to markets, aging machinery, legal dependency, and unequal participation.
Can workers preserve an industrial enterprise after owner abandonment by collectively taking responsibility for production, investment, employment, and political survival?
InstitutionClaim Cited
Valve combines a self-described flat internal organization with a formally governed external platform: employees are invited to choose work without conventional bosses, while Steam developers and subscribers operate under rules, review processes, and technical systems Valve controls.
Can high internal autonomy remain legible and accountable when the same company exercises concentrated rule-making power over an external marketplace?