Comparing Governance Systems in Cuban Cooperatives: A Study of Producer and Worker Cooperatives in Agriculture, Industry, and Services

Cuban producer and worker cooperatives’ governance systems have certain features that set them apart from their counterparts in other countries, such as the frequency broader mandates of general assemblies, inclusion managers workers members, no clear division between boards directors management. While this research did not seek to identify factors led these particularities, it focused on identifying main commonalities differences among systems. The findings shared chapter are based systematization case studies six cooperativesCuban cooperatives agriculture, industry, services, which or cooperatives, dissimilar membership sizes ages. Common humanistic participatory traits found consistent with Revolution’s ethos, is also analyzed article. latter, coupled evidence empirical investigations ideology culture socialist CubaIdeology Cuba, serves infer humanist governanceHumanist cooperatives.