Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108417 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2004/5
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Labour Research Department, Budapest
Abstract: 
By way of presenting an ahistorical fictitious story, this paper is ment to illustrate that: - in contrast to conventional wisdom, trade unions, in their symbiosis with capitalist firms, may further rather than impede price-mediated self-regulation in the labour market via their involvement in wagesetting, - whereas producer co-operatives, although they might seem to represent a close collateral of fully unionized capitalist firms, are fundamentally at variance with the logic of market self-regulation, in that they tend to respond to an increase in demand by restraining rather than extending supply, - with the consequence that they cannot even in principle be an alternative to capitalist firms, at least on a mass scale, unless combined with the adoption of some kind of bureaucratic price control.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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