My post-graduate work and thesis focused on Economic Democracy.

It is definitely the way to go. I wish Gar had talked more about the
very early labor movement's embrace and championing of this form
of organizing corporations, as it was a very rich and colorful history,
which included the Wooblies and a great many worker-owned
businesses. http://red-coral.net/WorkCoops.html

And I wish he had talked about the contemporary Mondragon federation
of cooperatives. in the Basque region of Spain, which includes most every
imaginable kind of business, manufacturing, child care, retail, and even
banking itself (like credit unions here). Been going strong since the
mid-1950s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation