ABSTRACT
The cooperative can be an oppositional form to current patterns of power and authority at work. The Mondragon system, compared with others and with the traditional workplace, is on many counts astounding, vibrant, effective. But a more helpful comparison is with a potential feminist and cooperative workplace, where women and men work together with participatory technologies, technologies that have a gentler touch with people and the environment. Feminism can counter antidemocratic influences embedded in part in new technologies and administrative practices.
