Crisis, Class, and Cooperatives: Some Comments on the United Steelworkers-Mondragon Alliance.

The alliance between the United Steelworkers and the Mondragon Cooperative Complex-to develop industrial jobs oriented toward a green economy-represents an important proposal for solving the problem of unemployment in the United States while addressing the issue of environmental degradation. Still, this alliance in the context of the United States poses interesting questions regarding issues that go beyond joblessness. This article seeks to present some of the issues that relate the complexity of subjectivities to how the crisis is articulated via the nation-state lens of economic representation. The main aim is to open up the discussion about the possibilities of nonexploitative class structures existing alongside subjectivities that are not informed by or do not reflect anticapitalist and anti-imperialist affiliations, and how this might relate to the concrete situation of the United States in times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]