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Mondragon is also the name of a commune of the Vaucluse département, in southern France. Mondragon is a town and commune of the Vaucluse département, in Provence, France. ...
For other uses of the name Vaucluse, see Vaucluse (disambiguation) Vaucluse is a département in the south of France. ...
The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ...
Arrasate or Mondragón (Basque and Spanish official names, Mondragoe is an unofficial Basque name) - is a town and municipality in Gipuzkoa province, Basque Country, Spain. There are about 25000 inhabitants. Basque (Euskara in Basque) is the language spoken by the Basque people, who live in northern Spain and the adjoining area of southwestern France. ...
Guipúzcoa province Guipúzcoa (Basque Gipuzkoa, Spanish Guipúzcoa, in English sometimes as Guipuscoa) is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ...
Capital Vitoria-Gasteiz Official languages Basque and Spanish Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 14th 7 234 km² 1,4% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 7th 2 108 281 5,0% 291,44/km² Demonym – English – Basque – Spanish Basque euskal herritar, euskaldun vasco/a, vascongado/a Statute of Autonomy...
It is known mainly as the place of origin of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the world's largest worker cooperative, whose foundation was inspired in the 1940s by Father José María Arizmendiarrieta. In 2002 the MCC contributed 3.7% towards the total GDP of the Basque Country and 7.6% to the industrial GDP. Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC) is a group of manufacturing and retail companies based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest of Spain and abroad. ...
A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and operated by its worker-owners. There are no outside, or consumer owners, in a workers cooperative - only the workers own shares of the business. ...
Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ...
2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Capital Vitoria-Gasteiz Official languages Basque and Spanish Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 14th 7 234 km² 1,4% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 7th 2 108 281 5,0% 291,44/km² Demonym – English – Basque – Spanish Basque euskal herritar, euskaldun vasco/a, vascongado/a Statute of Autonomy...
The spa at Santa Águeda (now a psychiatric hospital) was the location of the 1897 murder of Spanish politician Antonio Cánovas del Castillo by Michele Angiolillo. Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Spanish statesman and historian Antonio Cánovas Del Castillo was a Spanish politician and historian (Málaga, February 8, 1828 — Mondragón (Guipúzcoa), August 8, 1897). ...
Michele Angiolillo Lombardi (June 5, 1871, Foggia, Italy - August 20, 1897, Vergara, Guipúzcoa, Spain), Italian anarchist. ...
External link - Municipality pages in Basque and Spanish
- MCC homepage (multi-lingual)
References - We Build the Road as We Travel: Mondragon, A Cooperative Social System, Roy Morrison, ISBN 0965890317
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