ABSTRACT
The Mondragon group actually started in 1943 with a few classes at the lowest level of technical education for the training of unemployed young people; in 1956 a small workshop was opened for the manufacture of cookers and stoves; and in 1959 a credit cooperative opened its first branch office. All this happened in Mondragon, a small town in the province of Guipúzcoa – one of the Basque provinces in the north of Spain. According to the Guipúzcoa census for 1970, Mondragon then had 22,421 inhabitants and the province as a whole approximately 631 thousand.
