Knowledge Atlas · Reference
Glossary & ontology
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- Worker cooperative
- A firm owned and democratically controlled by the people who work in it, usually one member, one vote.
- Workers' self-management
- Management of an enterprise by its workforce, usually through an elected workers' council, rather than by owners or state officials. Yugoslavia made it a national system from 1950, when a Basic Law placed state-owned firms under workers' collectives.
- World parliament
- A proposed assembly of delegated or elected representatives of the world's peoples. The best-known proposal is a UN Parliamentary Assembly, not yet established.