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Jerold Solovy is 79 years old and has been flying American Airlines for 64 years. He cannot even recall when he crossed the 10 million mile mark. "I think I passed it last year; I wasn't keeping track," he says. "American Airlines wrote me a nice letter. They advised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in the Air Fantasies: What Does 10 Million Miles Get You? | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

The Mondragon Corp. (MCC), based in northern Spain, is a multilayered business group with 256 independent companies (more than 100 of which are worker-owned cooperatives) that employs more than 100,000 people. It has long been legendary among scholars and activists seeking to bolster workers' rights. (See the top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cleveland, Worker Co-Ops Look to a Spanish Model | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

The Mondragon story began in 1941, when a Catholic priest, Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta (often shortened to Arizmendi), found in the Basque town war-torn devastation where there had been a thriving manufacturing base. He opened a polytechnic school, which in 1956 spawned its first cooperative, a stove factory. Half a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cleveland, Worker Co-Ops Look to a Spanish Model | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

The "Cleveland model," as Evergreen has already been dubbed, creates "a way to stabilize jobs in an area as well as democratize ownership," says Gar Alperovitz, professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative, a nonprofit organization that has advised Evergreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cleveland, Worker Co-Ops Look to a Spanish Model | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

In the face-off between retailers and tight-fisted shoppers this holiday season, the last two shopping days before Christmas will be even more crucial than usual. Retailing experts expect to see deep discounts to woo the last-minute crowds, but not the complete capitulation that some shoppers had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Shopping: For Retailers, Down to Two Crucial Days | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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