Workers pursued a use-value economy through state-aided cooperatives alongside capitalism

Evidence

Miners weren’t the only workers who sought to build on the industrial reforms of World War I. Two other groups, the Italian cooperatives and the British building guilds, embodied the same aspirations of the working class. Although they shared the same goal with the miners— a system based on production for use instead of profi t— cooperatives and guilds did not directly act against private capitalists. Rather, they experimented with a diff erent order of society within the capitalist system, alongside private capitalists and with the aid of the state. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the contrast with grassroots worker movements covered earlier in the chapter on miners, connecting to the interwar statist-austerity argument. — connects to: Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes; Gradualist worker cooperatives still depended on surviving inside capitalist markets — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 444; Cooperatives redirected surplus from capital owners to the workers themselves (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Gradualist worker cooperatives still depended on surviving inside capitalist markets #qualifies (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 444
• Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes #corroborates (0.82)
• Cooperatives redirected surplus from capital owners to the workers themselves #expands (0.80)
• Workers’ cooperatives redistributed surplus toward reserve funds, insurance, and labor #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 423